Should This Museum Have Been Built In Montgomery?

Two Civil War museums (the American Civil War Center and the Museum of the Confederacy) have combined in Richmond, the second capital of The Confederacy. As the New York Times reports, that Virginia city was the location of....

The first significant monument to a Confederate military figure, a standing statue of Stonewall Jackson, was unveiled on Oct. 26, 1875, in Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, just 10 years after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House. Thousands of Confederate veterans joined tens of thousands of onlookers in a parade down the streets of a city decorated with flags, flowers and portraits of Jackson. They passed arches and towers bearing inscriptions like “Warrior, Christian, Patriot,” ending in Capitol Square, where the statue was unveiled. Gov. James Kemper, himself a Confederate veteran, welcomed them.

     That monument was installed eleven years before the city of Montgomery installed its own Civil War Monument, the  cornerstone dedicated by Jefferson Davis himself. But the city of Montgomery would have been an even better location.

     It was the location of the First Capital of The Confederacy, and it is the city that truly sparked the Civil Rights Movement, a movement that was at the core of the war issues.
     Nonetheless,  the museum is where it is, but Montgomery must deal with the shadow issues. 
     How should she tell her story? So far there has been conflict over the statue on the capitol grounds of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women, and the proposed statue of the city's namesake, a slave-owning General of the Revolutionary war. 
     The city plans a statue of him in a little park at the foot of Dexter Avenue along with a statue of Rosa Parks. 
     But there is opposition to the plant. A woman who gives city tours complains the statue of General Richard Montgomery is inappropriate.