Stone Mountain: is it time to remove America's biggest Confederate memorial?

On March 3, 1972, the sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were completed at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Think about when this was done. Right after the Civil Rights Movement in one of the most controversial places in civil rights history, the birthplace of the modern KKK. From the article:

"The scale of the monument, which was only finished in 1972, probably can’t be fully appreciated until it is seen firsthand. It’s by far the biggest memorial to the Confederacy, and at 158ft tall is the largest stone carving of its kind in the world.

It was also started by the Ku Klux Klan. The owner of the land was a Klansman, as was the original sculptor (who also created Mount Rushmore). And it sits inside Stone Mountain state park, just east of downtown Atlanta, only a few miles from the birthplace of Martin Luther King.

King himself included Stone Mountain in his most famous speech, I Have a Dream. It was 1963, at the height of the KKK’s re-emergence, and just as the final design for Stone Mountain's scultpure was being approved.

'And if America is to be a great nation,' said King, 'So let freedom ring … Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.'”