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Description: The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memoralizations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. We obtained and merged data on Confederate memorializations at the county- level and lynching victims, also at the county-level. We find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of the number of Confederate memorializations in a county, even after controlling for covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, and historically situated evidence, consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, one marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans in response to Black progress.