Georgia State Professor Emeritus On Atlanta’s Confederate Monuments

As our reckoning with racial injustice continues on the world stage, history is most vividly in the present.

Removing statues and renaming streets are beyond symbolic gestures, it is confronting the past with respect to the present and future. Timothy Crimmins, Georgia State University professor emeritus of history, was chair of the commission on the preservation of the Georgia Capitol and co-author of “Democracy Restored, A History of the Georgia State Capitol.”

He joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to talk about statues and monuments here in Atlanta — and the history behind them.