Where They Stood: The Dismantling of White Supremacy, One Statue at a Time

Please join us for a research conversation with photojournalist Melissa Lyttle. Lyttle has been documenting scores of Confederate monuments that have been taken down since George Floyd’s death — a moment in time viewed as a turning point when she felt the U.S. was beginning to try and figure out what it was going to become as a nation. In April 2021, she began a 5-week, 7,300-mile road trip through the South to record an unraveling — capturing a moment in time when long-held narratives about Southern pride and memorialization of Civil War leaders were literally being knocked off their pedestals.

Melissa Lyttle is an independent visual journalist based in Washington, D.C. Her work has been honored by UNICEF, POYi, and NPPA's Best of Photojournalism. As a freelancer and a two-time International Women's Media Foundation fellow, she has also done extensive work on the US-Mexico border in both Ciudad Juárez and Nogales, Sonora.
 

This event is free and open to the public. It will take place in person and virtually using HyFlex technology. You can participate in this talk remotely by registering here. Otherwise, please join us in the Faculty Reading Room (BL209) at the Frederick E. Berry Library at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28.

Cosponsored by the History Department and the Center for Research and Creative Activities (CRCA).

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