How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

[Quixote1818]

[Laelth]

1. My grandmother was a member of the UDC.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were a real thing. Their membership has declined significantly over the years, but there’s no doubt that they were responsible for erecting the majority of the Confederate memorials in the South.

-Laelth

[Quixote1818]

2. I googled them the other day. Their main building was burned down during the George Floyd protests

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/updated-daughters-of-confederacy-headquarters-on-fire-2-capitol-police-officers-injured-as-violence-erupts/article_a2299cb2-367a-5f13-a107-97a4ca8a1f68.html

[Hekate]

3. Oh, how very ... sad

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Daughters of the American Revolution

Formed about 1890, they excluded black performers. Marian Anderson's performance at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939, was an alternative site arranged by Eleanor Roosevelt. In the years after, DAR invited Anderson to perform at some events, but the first African American was not admitted to DAR until the late 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution

[Laelth]

5. My grandmother was a member of the DAR too.

These things were important to upper-classed women in the first half of the twentieth century.

-Laelth

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. My mom told me about Eleanor Roosevelt.

How she resigned from the DAR when they wouldn't let Marian Anderson sing at Constitution Hall. Mom was a good Democrat and was proud of Eleanor for that. A great first lady.

[FM123]

6. Interesting video!

To think that these women who did not even have the right to vote were so powerful in shaping the narrative of white supremacy...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Read LIES ACROSS AMERICA

by Dr. James L. Loewen. It's about the South rewriting history to slant it in their favor on hysterical markers. Ferinstance: They call it the "War of Northern Aggression" even though South Carolina fired on Fort Sumter FIRST.

LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME is the first book he wrote about why history as taught in the United States is boring. It's written so as not to offend white men.