A Minimalist Solution to Williamson County

In this article, I examine the efforts of a group of anti-Confederate monument activists in Williamson County, Texas. The article begins with the history of the monument itself, 100 years before the activists initiated their efforts. The intransigence to removing the Confederate monument is symbolic of white resistance to struggles for racial equality more broadly. Second, I discuss how the local legal impasse has contributed to distinct anti-monument activist strategies that deploy counternarratives and memories, from performances, to challenging narrative claims regarding who is more patriotic. Finally, I explore the politics of self-reckoning—the process by which white people find that they have to answer for racism deep within themselves as well as in relation to violent white supremacy and the legal and institutional fortress that protects whiteness generally. Battling both racists and racist institutions is hard and lengthy, and monument activism persistently exposes what is at stake.

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Trivoli Sandstone of Williamson County, Illinois

The Journal of Geology ◽

10.1086/625675 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 57 (6) ◽

pp. 614-618 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Raymond Siever

Keyword(s):

Williamson County

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Psychological Survey on a Child Population in Williamson County, Tennessee

The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology ◽

10.1080/08856559.1946.10533386 ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 169-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William F. Roth ◽

Frank H. Luton ◽

Virginia Kirk

Keyword(s):

Child Population ◽

Williamson County

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Reel-Shaped Gorgets

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/275545 ◽

1941 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 265-265

Author(s):

James B. Griffin

Keyword(s):

Montgomery County ◽

Focused Attention ◽

National Museum ◽

Williamson County

The interesting discoveries in northern Alabama of a series of mounds which can be attributed to the Hopewellian Phase have focused attention on the copper reel-shaped gorgets. Webb refers to one such in the National Museum that was sent in by a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio. It is possible that this is the copper reel-shaped gorget mentioned by Rau that came to the National Museum from the Hopewell group in Greenup County, Kentucky, opposite the mouth of the Scioto. The donor, a Mr. W. Kinney of Portsmouth, Ohio, reported that “On one occasion half a bushel of these ornaments was found in the same mound and sent to the smelter.” A possible reel-shaped gorget or modified breast plate came from an Adena-Hopewell mound near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, and has been described by Putnam. In the same publication a brief report is made on the finds from a mound in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee. This description suggests a Hopewellian affinity.

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