That's actually what inspired this post! There may be -- I don't think there is -- a case for Lee, but there is none for Jackson. And I have a quibble about this: "When the Lee window was installed in 1953, before the enactment of the historic civil rights legislation of the 1960s, many Americans may have viewed Lee as a hero."
(1) The civil rights struggle was already organizing and visible in 1953. Brown v. Board of Education was originally filed in 1951 and was wending its way to the Supreme Court by 1953. (Don't know how long the Daughters of the Confederacy had been building the window before that.)
(2) Many Americans still do view Lee as a hero. That is not a thing of the past. His cultus continues.
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(1) The civil rights struggle was already organizing and visible in 1953. Brown v. Board of Education was originally filed in 1951 and was wending its way to the Supreme Court by 1953. (Don't know how long the Daughters of the Confederacy had been building the window before that.)
(2) Many Americans still do view Lee as a hero. That is not a thing of the past. His cultus continues.