There are a number of ways to interpret this photograph of Mayor Curtis Hayes— accompanied by members of the local SCV camp—signing a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month in Livingston, Tennessee.
I can’t speak to what motivated the mayor to sign the proclamation or Livingston’s local politics. In many places …
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