"It was substantial, sustained opposition from organized African American women and the black press that killed the Mammy monument proposal." from the article that Amos linked to.

In 1923, were African American women all that organized? Was the 'black press' at that time that influential? It doen't sound factual.

That article raises several questions in my mind. I realize the author is a professor so she may be correct in all of her assumptions but to me it sounds like opinion. I'll have to do some research.