Stonewall Jackson Windows, National Cathedral
Credit: Remember (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Stained glass is again under attack. Maintenance staffer Corey Menafee smashed an image of cotton-picking slaves in a dining hall at Yale’s Calhoun College. The university then hastened to remove other images glorifying pro-slavery ideologue John C. Calhoun and the antebellum South, and renamed its Calhoun College. Washington, DC’s National Cathedral performed a more orderly deconsecration of its Lee and Jackson windows, which, like the Jackson bust at Bronx Community College, had been installed during the Civil Rights Era at the behest of the Daughters of the Confederacy.