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 One pew end was designed, created, and donated to the College by alumni members of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) and installed in 1957. It depicts Corporal Julian Edward Wood running with a Confederate flag on his back.
-A 1958 article by Trinity's Assistant Director of Public Relations, Dale Hartford, reprinted in the //Shield and Diamond// (a Pi Kappa Alpha periodical) stated that after his time in the army, Julian Wood entered the University of Virginia, where he was one of six founding members of Pi Kappa Alpha. According to the article, "Three of the six were veterans of the Confederate Army, and founding Pi Kappa Alpha was their attempt at preserving the unique culture and heritage of the South." "This is a very busy weekend at Trinity. It is Alumni Homecoming Weekend... perhaps most notable of all, it is the weekend when Corp. Julian Wood raises the Confederate flag in the Trinity Chapel."
+A 1958 article by Trinity's Assistant Director of Public Relations, Dale Hartford, reprinted in the //Shield and Diamond// (a Pi Kappa Alpha periodical) stated that after his time in the army, Julian Wood entered the University of Virginia, where he was one of six founding members of Pi Kappa Alpha. According to the article, "Three of the six were veterans of the Confederate Army, and founding Pi Kappa Alpha was their attempt at preserving the unique culture and heritage of the South." "This is a very busy weekend at Trinity. It is Alumni [[homecoming|Homecoming]] Weekend... perhaps most notable of all, it is the weekend when Corp. Julian Wood raises the Confederate flag in the Trinity Chapel."
 Due to its depiction of Confederate iconography, questions about the pew-end's visibility and existence in the Chapel, and what that represents to students, faculty, and staff, were raised in 2017.
-Several PIKE alumni wrote emails to Chaplain Allison Read regarding the pew-end in support of its removal. One stated that "These groups commissioned the statues and monuments for two main purposes: (1) to spread and to glorify the "Lost Cause" myth of the Civil War as a fight to maintain the southern way of life instead of preserving slavery; and (2) to serve as explicit symbols of white supremacy by reminding African-Americans during the Jim Crow era that they were second class citizens.” Another email said, “What the founders of the national fraternity fought for before forming PIKE is an embarrassment, not a source of pride," and a third stated "I have never felt that the national organization represented the Trinity chapter in any way and I cannot think of any ethically sound reasons why someone would choose confederate symbols to represent PIKE at Trinity."
+Several PIKE alumni wrote emails to Chaplain Allison Read regarding the pew-end in support of its removal. One stated that "These groups commissioned the statues and monuments for two main purposes: (1) to spread and to glorify the "Lost Cause" myth of the [[civil_war|Civil War]] as a fight to maintain the southern way of life instead of preserving slavery; and (2) to serve as explicit symbols of white supremacy by reminding African-Americans during the Jim Crow era that they were second class citizens.” Another email said, “What the founders of the national fraternity fought for before forming PIKE is an embarrassment, not a source of pride," and a third stated "I have never felt that the national organization represented the Trinity chapter in any way and I cannot think of any ethically sound reasons why someone would choose confederate symbols to represent PIKE at Trinity."
 After lengthy discussions with current PIKE and alumni members, as well as Chaplain Read's Advisory Staff, a consensus was reached to relocate the pew-end to the College Archives in the [[watkinson_library|Watkinson Library]]. It was removed in August 2017 and in 2021, it was transferred to the Watkinson, where it is now preserved.
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 [[https://dsp.domains.trincoll.edu/TrinityAndSlavery/confederate-symbolism/|Trinity and Slavery - Confederate Symbolism]] (2019) by students in American Studies 406.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=trinslavery|Confederate Symbolism at Trinity College]] (2019) by Tyler Hartmeyer.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.39166763|Confederate Symbolism at Trinity College]] (2019) by Tyler Hartmeyer.
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4262&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod]], 10/26/2017.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30338920|Trinity Tripod]], 09/26/2017.
 The Chapel of Trinity College (1982) by Peter Grant pp. 29-60.