Confederate History Month

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Re: Scholars Debate Over Black Role In The Confederacy

RALEIGH, N.C. – As America embarks on four years of Civil War commemorations, it revives an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy.

“I think it keeps coming up because there are certain people who resist the idea that slavery and white supremacy were the cause of the Civil War.”

One such group is the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a Southern heritage organization whose members say state’s rights, not slavery, was the primary motivation for succession. Through a steady stream of website commentaries, blog posts and printed articles, Sons of Confederate Veterans members frequently promote the idea of black support for the Southern Army.

“The idea that the Civil War was about states’ rights . . .
it’s become so general in the public.
That misconception has influenced everything from textbooks
to movies, which reinforce the public’s ignorance.

“There are school board members who believe it,
teachers who believe it . . .”

For historians, however, there is little question that slavery
was the driving factor in sparking secession and later the war.
Teaching history incorrectly . . . allows people to justify
supporting the Confederacy without addressing related questions of racism.

“If you don’t understand what the Civil War was about, you don’t
have anything to argue against <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Confederate nationalism</span>.
[which is]
It’s <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">an erasure of African-Americans in the South by
saying the Confederacy was the South. It’s creating
a Southern identity as a white identity.”</span>

- Edward Sebesta, researcher an editor of “Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction.” ​

Read more here: Confronting myths about causes of the Civil War


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article27527029.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Re: Scholars Debate Over Black Role In The Confederacy

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“The idea that the Civil War was about states’ rights . . .
it’s become so general in the public.
That misconception has influenced everything from textbooks
to movies, which reinforce the public’s ignorance.

“There are school board members who believe it,
teachers who believe it . . .”

For historians, however, there is little question that slavery
was the driving factor in sparking secession and later the war.
Teaching history incorrectly . . . allows people to justify
supporting the Confederacy without addressing related questions of racism.

“If you don’t understand what the Civil War was about, you don’t
have anything to argue against <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Confederate nationalism</span>.
[which is]
It’s <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">an erasure of African-Americans in the South by
saying the Confederacy was the South. It’s creating
a Southern identity as a white identity.”</span>

- Edward Sebesta, researcher an editor of “Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction.” ​

Read more here: Confronting myths about causes of the Civil War


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article27527029.html#storylink=cpy

 

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Re: Scholars Debate Over Black Role In The Confederacy

Ole Miss just took down the state flag
amid backlash over its Confederate symbol​

The University of Mississippi removed the state flag from campus Monday morning amid backlash from students and faculty over the Confederate battle symbol in its corner, according to a news release.

"The University of Mississippi community came to the realization years ago that the Confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values, such as civility and respect for others," interim Chancellor Morris Stocks said in a statement.

The flag is being moved to the Ole Miss archives after the student government voted to ask the administration to take it down. The decision comes as part of a larger, years-long state and nationwide debate about Confederate symbols, which many feel hold racist connotations. South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds in July, shortly after a white gunman allegedly killed nine people in a historically black Charleston church. —Julie Kliegman​

http://theweek.com/speedreads/58520...te-flag-amid-backlash-over-confederate-symbol

 

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News Story Above, Long Overdue!!

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When the March 7, 1965 bloody Sunday SELMA march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge led by John Lewis and others occurred; the white men pictured below were waiting for them on the other side of the bridge.

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