Season 2: Liz Clappin, historian and host of Tomb With A View Podcast
Description
* Apologies for the host audio (not the guest's audio), a new microphone is on the way.
In this interview I talk to architectural historian and Tomb with a View Podcast Host Liz Clappin. In this interview we talk in-depth about the Atlanta City Council's recent unanimous decision to remove the Oakland Cemetery Lion from the park. The lion is a 127-year old confederate statue that featured a lion laying on top of a confederate flag to symbolize the 3,000 confederate soldiers who lie in unmarked graves on the grass section of the park.
Oakland Cemetery is one of Atlanta's oldest cemeteries and parks, so we talk about the history of the park and its significance. We talk about the recent tagging and defacing of confederate monuments at Oakland Cemetery as well as Westview cemetery. We talk a lot about how false narratives like 'the lost cause', 'the war of northern aggression, and markers like ones in Oakland Cemetery are used for promoting white nationalism.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tomb-with-a-view-a-cemetery-podcast/id1479982844
And Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2hLcZjkwE6wqoXbgtCVOGm
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