A group of at least 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the White House on Sunday to demonstrate solidarity with counterprotesters who had suffered in violent clashes with white nationalists the day before. From there, they marched toward the District of Columbia’s only remaining outdoor monument to a Confederate general ― a reminder that the issue that had supposedly drawn neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to Charlottesville, Virginia, is not yet settled in the nation’s capital.

Earlier in the weekend, throngs of Tiki torch-wielding white supremacists descended on Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederacy to a weary surrender in the Civil War. Just over 100 miles northeast, his comrade, Brig. Gen. Albert Pike, stands memorialized in a statue in Washington’s Judiciary Square.

Pike should arguably be a more divisive figure than Lee. While there have been some contestedsuggestions that Lee may have opposed slavery, Pike certainly did not. Pike was born in Massachusetts in 1809 and moved to Arkansas in his 20s. He joined the Know-Nothing Party, but left because they weren’t pro-slavery enough. He wrote news, composed poetry and practiced law, with his clients including members of Native American tribes. Pike joined the Confederate army as a brigadier general in 1861. He resigned his military post the next year after the Battle of Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas, where he proved unable to control his troops. He died in Washington in 1891.

Pike was also a Freemason, and it was his role with that organization, including as grand commander of the Scottish Rite Masons, that earned him a memorial in the nation’s capital. The Freemasons erected the statue in 1901.

Standing on his pedestal, Pike wears civilian attire. The engravings talk about his work as an author, poet and philanthropist. But his legacy as a Confederate general and proud supporter of slavery is conspicuously absent. The engravings do not mention that he wrote the Confederate battle song “Dixie to Arms” or that troops under his command were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers in battle.

The memorial and its selective homage to Pike the Freemason should bother people, argues Eugene Puryear, an organizer with the Stop Police Terror Project D.C., which helped organize Sunday’s rally.

“Even if that was the only reason they erected it, still by erecting it you’re deciding that the white supremacy legacy of slavery, the legacy of segregation that he left was something that wasn’t problematic to you and that you were happy to platform and raise up,” he told HuffPost.

“Whatever good Albert Pike may have done to afford the Masonic organization, to me, is completely and utterly tainted by his racist views,” added Sean Blackmon, who is also with the Stop Police Terror Project D.C.

Demonstration organizers chose to end Sunday’s march at Pike’s statue, Puryear said, in order to draw attention to the racist sentiments still pervasive in American society. Confederate statues like Pike’s represent “the rise of white supremacist governments” after the failure of Reconstruction, he said.

Pike also hopes the statue’s ― and thus the protest’s ― proximity to the city’s Metropolitan Police Department will help draw attention to issues of police violence and racial inequality in the criminal justice system.