The Museum of the Confederacy, the White House of the Confederacy.
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"The SBC supported the Confederacy and was emotionally and philosophically attached to the Confederacy," McKissic wrote.
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My logic ran: America was good, the Confederacy fought against America, so the Confederacy was bad.
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They had this whole narrative where the Confederacy was this multiracial paradise where hundreds of thousands of black Confederates fought for the Confederacy.
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The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, is made up of six North American nations; many consider it the oldest participatory democracy on Earth.
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The founding of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 1895 created a group of ladies interested in glorifying the Confederacy in schools and public spaces.
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In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) erected this monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina honoring students who fought for the Confederacy.
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It commemorated Jefferson Davis's inauguration as president of the Confederacy.
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He says his customers incorrectly think he supports the Confederacy.
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It will be relocated by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Ardent defenders of the Confederacy didn't want King's likeness there.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy, or U.D.C., still exists.
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The heartland of the American conservatism is the old Confederacy.
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Black men participated in electoral politics throughout the former Confederacy.
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The original capital of the Confederacy was in Montgomery, Ala.
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Mr. Jackson was from Tennessee, which fought for the Confederacy.
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Workers in New Orleans dismantled an obelisk commemorating the Confederacy.
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So, why now, is she fanning the flames of confederacy?
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The state has a deep and conflicted connection to the Confederacy.
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"Hope you stretched," Knox said at The New Confederacy meeting point.
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But the reality is, he&aposs a darling of the confederacy.
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"The name stands for the Confederacy," said Jackson, who is black.
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That star currently signifies that Arkansas was part of the Confederacy.
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There's no plan to rename the installations that honor the Confederacy.
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Stewart's opponent, Kaine, was critical of Stewart's embrace of the Confederacy.
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He left the Senate to be the president of the Confederacy.
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The last senator expelled was in 1862 for supporting the Confederacy.
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The American South is littered with the iconography of the Confederacy.
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In the back story of "Black America," the Confederacy was defeated.
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Statues honoring the Confederacy have gotten a lot of attention lately.
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Here, we live amid "just between us" monuments to the Confederacy.
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A monument to the Confederacy enrages a group of young people.
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It was the only such facility beyond the former Confederacy itself.
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The Confederacy is the "lost cause," and so is Trump's presidency.
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And they agree that the Confederacy is about preserving Southern heritage.
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I believed the Confederacy seceded to preserve states' rights, not slavery.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in the 21897s on the twin myths of the tragic yet noble Lost Cause of the Confederacy and the happy black folks who just loved them some slavery.
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This table was the flagship of the Confederacy from 1954 to 1968.
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That included graffiti in Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy.
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Pro-Confederacy candidate Corey Stewart won a GOP Senate primary in Virginia.
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But that isn't how the Confederacy has been discussed in recent months.
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"What if we moved towards another symbol of the Confederacy?" she asks.
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One speaker said the group opposes the "continued celebration" of the Confederacy.
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In the age of Jim Crow, the Confederacy followed a similar practice.
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It shows the dates that various monuments to the Confederacy were installed.
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I'm not going to speak for Confederacy, because I haven't seen it.
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Taken as a whole, my state was always ambivalent about the Confederacy.
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" In reference to Savile, Oliver called the Confederacy "America's tracksuit sex offender.
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But as Gay points out, longing for the Confederacy is still alive.
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Consequently, the Confederacy might have survived, thereby splitting America into two countries.
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Like "Old Joe" it was the product of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an outgrowth of two organizations that arose after the Civil War to pay homage to the Confederacy through the construction of monuments and memorials.
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Several cities and towns took down or renamed historic symbols honoring controversial figures — including Boston, which removed its only monument to the Confederacy, a small stone slab put up in 1963 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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"It was a Civil War battle song for the Confederacy," Young told me.
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As many as 25,000 Marylanders went south to fight for the Confederacy anyway.
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Seen in light of democratic sovereignty, the Confederacy was born in a series
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy had originally donated the plaque in 1925.
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Five states still have paid holidays that commemorate the Confederacy or its leaders.
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"Snooty did 83,28,225x more for this community than the Confederacy," wrote one supporter.
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As strange as it sounds, I didn't even associate him with the Confederacy.
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Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy, a work
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This phenomenon is the most pronounced within the former borders of the Confederacy.
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They know that the story of the Confederacy is a story about slavery.
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The monument was unveiled with support from the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Contemporary expressions of sympathy for the Confederacy are a continuation of this assault.
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A pub crawl with Fred across the old Confederacy, as he put it.
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Richmond was the official capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War.
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Heirs to the Confederacy had previously organized events in support of the statue.
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Mr. Stewart's embrace of the Confederacy reached an apogee in his 2017 campaign.
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"The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity," he said.
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Like white Creoles, some owned slaves, and some later fought for the Confederacy.
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How could we honor the Confederacy and the nation it fought to leave?
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Either way, though, such images help define the Confederacy as "the South," an association all too apparent in our terminology: We still say that during the Civil War, Southerners (not Confederates) seceded and fought for the South (not the Confederacy).
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Many civilians stayed loyal to the Confederacy and supported guerrillas until the war ended.
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John Tyler was a slaveholder who sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.
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Like Winston County in Alabama, Jones County in Mississippi also "seceded" from the Confederacy.
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They argued they certainly didn't want their school named in honor of the Confederacy.
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It was erected and dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1927.
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What does the Confederacy -- formally the Confederate States of America -- means in modern America.
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Let's start with what most people associate with the Confederacy: The American Civil War.
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"Those were easier to stigmatize because they were all in the Confederacy," Moore notes.
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O'Toole makes a startling comparison, late in his book, between Brexit and the Confederacy.
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The South did not exist as "the South" until the creation of the Confederacy.
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The Civil War was about conflict within the Confederacy and within the United States.
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They offer no apology whatsoever for the Confederacy and its system of racial slavery.
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The statue was erected in 1913 to honor students who fought for the Confederacy.
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If zeal could be weaponized in wartime, the Confederacy might have had a chance.
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Silent Sam was built at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy gave the statue to the university in 1909.
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Are you surprised that we're still having a debate over monuments to the Confederacy?
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There were certainly people associated with the Confederacy who were noteworthy for other reasons.
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We can hardly be surprised that he doesn't understand what the Confederacy stood for.
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Protesters toppled the statue in August amid national friction over monuments to the Confederacy.
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In 1937, the Daughters of the Confederacy called for its lyrics to be rewritten.
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Mr. Cotton is a historian whose ancestors owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy.
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The Republicans had tried to save the Republic by burying the Confederacy for good.
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Democrats now have a liberal governing trifecta in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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Ignatius J. Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces" is pretty hard to beat. Villains?
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In the early 2202th century, such laws began to spread beyond the ex-Confederacy.
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Only 15 Senators have ever been kicked out, 14 of them for supporting the Confederacy.
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The Confederacy did not allow black men—free or enslaved—to serve in its military.
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Facts & figures: Virginia — with the Confederacy capital of Richmond — has the most monuments with 2015.
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Counterefforts to honor Southern heritage and preserve symbols of the Confederacy have also sprung up.
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In 1862 Union forces won 30 battles, the Confederacy won 42 and 21625 were inconclusive.
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RELATED: Here are 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in the US Former South Carolina Gov.
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This is one place where Hyde-Smith's associations with segregationists and Confederacy apologists could help.
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Busani Sibindi is the president and founder of Matabeleland Football Confederacy, which formed in 2016.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy also did not respond to a request for comment.
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And it's in the same cradle of the old Confederacy where discriminatory bills are rising.
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Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address a month before the Confederacy surrendered at Appomattox.
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This past week, workers dismantled a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
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His efforts led to the creation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, still vibrant and significant today.
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In the 1860s, 14 senators were expelled due to their treason in aiding the Confederacy.
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Trump is supposedly the gravest threat to American democracy since the secession of the Confederacy.
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The panel at Texas and building name at Vanderbilt were intended to honor the Confederacy.
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Mr. Stewart, a Minnesota native, has defended the Confederacy and praised (then disavowed) white nationalists.
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Virginia's political turmoil is complicated by its history as the onetime heart of the Confederacy.
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Nor is the fact that Zebulon Baird Vance owned slaves and served in the Confederacy.
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Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he would be introducing a bill to remove all the Confederate statues in the Capitol, which include the President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis, Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Hamilton Stephens, and, of course, Confederate General Lee.
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The Confederacy had three capital cities at varying points: Montgomery, Alabama; Richmond, Virginia; and Danville, Virginia.
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In the wake of the rally, other cities have acted to remove monuments to the Confederacy.
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President Donald Trump delivered an address Tuesday that made him sound like President of the Confederacy.
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Blaming it on race But the legacy of racism runs deep, especially in the old Confederacy.
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"This is not a black versus white issue or something to honor the Confederacy," Joyner said.
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War is expensive, and both the Union and the Confederacy needed a way to pay soldiers.
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As you might expect, race and geography were powerful predictors of feelings about honouring the Confederacy.
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Virginia is the only state in the former Confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton over Mr. Trump.
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The removal was paid for by a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Jack Jacobs said the European Union's loose confederacy without border controls presents a target for ISIS.
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The Union defeated the Confederacy in 1865 after a war that took more than 600,000 lives.
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What did the states of the Confederacy claim they were fighting for in the Civil War?
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He also added that the city will still have many schools and buildings honoring the Confederacy.
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In the wake of the rally, other cities have acted to remove monuments to the Confederacy.
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For me, it was the equivalent of black Americans having to endure monuments glorifying the Confederacy.
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Of the 20 expulsions of sitting members that have occurred, 17 were for supporting the Confederacy.
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The last senators removed from office were expelled for supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Like many white Southerners, she not only inherited a reverence for the Confederacy, she celebrated it.
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The vandalism comes as activists have increasingly targeted monuments that memorialize the Confederacy across the South.
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Despite its zeal, the Confederacy couldn't match the industrial, logistical, and numerical superiority of the Union.
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The vandalism comes amid a public debate over Civil War statues and memorials honoring the Confederacy.
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The report released last week recommended renaming several streets and removing markers related to the Confederacy.
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My travels with Fred could reasonably be cast as a pub crawl across the old Confederacy.
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The Confederacy is a symbol of hate; it is the embodiment and blatant promotion of discrimination.
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Some say it should be changed because it recalls a confederacy that fought to preserve slavery.
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Others depict supporters of slavery or the Confederacy, such as former Secretary of State and Sen.
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Writers from across the political spectrum discuss the removal of statues and monuments to the Confederacy.
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Stewart has avidly defended symbols of the Confederacy and pledged to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Silent Sam was given to the university by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1909.
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As Landrieu put it: Should you have further doubt about the true goals of the Confederacy, in the very weeks before the war broke out, the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, made it clear that the Confederate cause was about maintaining slavery and white supremacy.
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We have a state officeholder in South Carolina talking about how proud she is of the Confederacy.
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The Confederacy all but re-enslaved the blacks in the iron cage of Jim Crow and prejudice.
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Today, they remain standing, but covered — a ghostly reminder of the veiled ways the Confederacy quietly endures.
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Inside was a scrawled map of The New Confederacy, with The Wall, as always, creating its border.
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During the Civil War, Maryland was one of several border states and not part of the Confederacy.
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But statues of Confederate soldiers erase those conflicts by portraying the South as united behind the Confederacy.
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It's one of many places in the US grappling with whether to remove nods to the Confederacy.
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The party of Lincoln won't stand with those who carry the battle flags of the failed Confederacy.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy proposed the monument, which the university's board approved in June 1908.
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Their critics say that their statues and monuments to the Confederacy are dog whistles to white supremacy.
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We can contain this iconoclasm, they suggest, and hold the line at the monuments of the Confederacy.
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The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa decided to organize a confederacy of Indian nations to fight back.
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William Henry Harrison led an army against this confederacy, and they met at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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That means the Mississippi state flag, which features emblems of the Confederacy, was flying behind the platform.
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Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy and the center of an immense domestic slave trade.
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The 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment helped break the back of the Confederacy as part of Gen.
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Arkansas also resisted the Southern trend toward Republican dominance for longer than much of the former Confederacy.
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The nationwide debate over the removal of monuments to the Confederacy is coming to the U.S. Capitol.
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You get the point — removing the legacy of the Confederacy is harder than toppling a few statues.
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Excluding blacks from historical recognition has been the other side of the coin of glorifying the Confederacy.
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Under Trump, the United States is a confederacy of corruption, driven by a thousand points of evil.
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Albert Sidney Johnston, hero of the Texas Revolution and son of the Confederacy, who died at Shiloh.
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The Lost Cause, a romanticized vision of the Old South and Confederacy, gained adherents throughout the country.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
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She is with a group called We Are Dixie, which argues the Dixie reference predates the Confederacy.
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More than 1,700 "publicly sponsored symbols" of the Confederacy remain, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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As a result of the removals, no symbols of the Confederacy remain on public grounds in Baltimore.
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Many of the cheaper, concrete statues to the Confederacy were commissioned in the early decades of last century by hereditary groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and – since the call for the removal of these monuments started up – the organizations have been taking the statues back.
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Coincidentally, the closest match, they discovered, was a Benjamin Moore color called "Confederate red" — a telling and disturbing example of the prevalence on the Confederacy in American consciousness and the revisionism that has occurred to normalize the legacy of the Confederacy, and the United States's history with slavery.
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That was a blow to both the Union and the Confederacy, who'd each hoped to ally with London.
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But Lincoln resisted, mainly so that he wouldn't antagonize Napoleon III and push him to support the Confederacy.
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Kerrigan was taken from her family to be molded and tortured into a psionic weapon by the Confederacy.
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It is the birthplace of the civil rights movement but also was the first capital of the Confederacy.
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Observers at the time vehemently denied scattered reports in Northern newspapers that the Confederacy had recruited black soldiers.
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Even the few black men who tried to fight for the Confederacy were ultimately blocked from doing so.
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Such are the contradictory customs of Richmond, capital of the Confederacy for most of the American civil war.
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Thousands of Jews fought for the Confederacy and they were treated with kindness and respect by General Lee.
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And we can't be a welcoming, progressive city with 20 foot statues glorifying the Confederacy leaning over us.
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The statue of the Confederacy&aposs first general, P.G.T. Beauregard , was among four Confederate monuments removed last year.
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The Confederacy does not need to be resurrected, it needs to be de-zombified and brought to justice.
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Moreover, Washington and Jefferson are more complicated on the matter of slavery than the defenders of the Confederacy.
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There are seven hundred monuments to the Confederacy, most of them in the South, from Tampa to Charlottesville.
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Lawmakers in a number of states have pushed to remove monuments, plaques and other homages to the Confederacy.
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There, in a former capital of the Confederacy, he summed up the history-making moment in four words.
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Although the Confederacy saw some success at sea, the Confederate Navy was largely outgunned by the Union Navy.
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What's in a name We've heard of cities renaming streets and schools because of ties to the Confederacy.
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A friend here joked that liberals might eventually take down the Confederacy of Dunces statue on Canal Street.
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Knight is addressing a (mostly white) crowd of poor Southerners he is enlisting to rebel against the Confederacy.
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The era also saw a surge in the construction of Confederate monuments, including many outside the former Confederacy.
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But only two of those states are among the 11 that seceded in 1861 to form the Confederacy.
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Many people argue that honoring the Confederacy is really about honoring Southern heritage, not about defending white supremacy.
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The statue now joins the list of Confederacy related monuments that have been removed from their original location.
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Since M.L.B. made the contribution, further reports have come to light showing Hyde-Smith's support for the Confederacy.
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This makes sense since the region is home to a majority of the public memorials to the Confederacy.
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One of them was to use federal troops to register black men to vote in the former Confederacy.
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Let them become symbols not of service to the Confederacy but of the dereliction of larger civic duty.
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Antihero: Ignatius J. Reilly, from "A Confederacy of Dunces" What kind of reader were you as a child?
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The flag of the Confederacy, its symbols and the statues commemorating Confederate leaders have long divided the country.
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The school's history, like that of many southern institutions, is intimately linked with the history of the Confederacy.
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In 1974, Democrats still held 17 of 26 Senate seats in the 13 states of the old Confederacy.
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How did the Confederacy come to be symbolized in the flag that roils American politics to this day?
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Slavery also constituted a central tenet of the Confederacy, but slavery was certainly not a noble cause worldwide.
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The clashes came amid debate over the removal of statues and memorials commemorating the Confederacy across the country.
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And he advocated dividing America "into a confederacy of territories with at least 1 territory for each race".
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The Sons & Daughters of the Confederacy has participated in Wake Forest's Christmas parade for more than 20 years.
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He also refashioned himself as a booster of the Confederacy, especially in his unsuccessful 2017 race for governor.
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Instead, it marks the moment when emancipation finally reached those in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy.
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After the Confederacy was defeated, white Southerners had to defend something that looked an awful lot like treason.
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The Confederacy, or the Confederate States of America, was established with the purpose of preserving the institution of slavery.
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At the time of the Battle of Puebla, the Confederacy had strung together impressive victories over the Union forces.
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That seems like a lot, but 14 of those were expelled for supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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This concerted effort to resurrect the symbolism of the Confederacy so long after losing the war is without precedent.
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Richmond, Virginia Richmond was the second capital of the Confederacy, and for the longest period -- from 1861 to 1865.
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In a different mission, you find a lover of the Confederacy who makes the protagonist of the game furious.
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Across the nation, at least 700 Confederacy linked statues and monuments remain, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, used this as his White House for four months.
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For all its history as the heart of the Confederacy, Virginia is a state whose demographics are trending blue.
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The county was known as the "Free State of Jones," and some say it actually seceded from the Confederacy.
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The events of that day ignited a national debate over symbols of the Confederacy and the legacy of slavery.
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John Hunt Morgan served in the Mexican-American war, and fought for the Confederacy until his death in 1864.
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Trump also condemned efforts to take down statues in southern states dedicated to heroes of the Civil War Confederacy.
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Landrieu has recognized that this pernicious ideology is rendered symbolically in monuments of soldiers and principals of the Confederacy.
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Dylann Roof had posted pictures of himself on social media posing with symbols of the Confederacy and white supremacy.
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Opponents of the measure said the monuments celebrate white supremacy and honor the slavery the Confederacy sought to preserve.
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The Confederacy doesn't need preserving, and to paraphrase the artist John Sims, it doesn't need resurrecting -- it needs exorcising.
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He also was a member and longtime supporter of organizations dedicated to preserving Confederate memorials and honoring the Confederacy.
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It was reflected in textbooks, birthday celebrations of Confederate heroes, and the creation of the Children of the Confederacy.
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Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Grant at Appomattox, the Confederacy didn't die in April 1865; it simply morphed.
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As a result, Virginia, where the capital of the Confederacy was located, is probably the least "southern" southern state.
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The Civil War drama "The Free State of Jones" is based on a rebellion against the Confederacy in Mississippi.
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A growing number of U.S. political leaders have called for the removal of statues honoring the pro-slavery Confederacy.
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In the "Capital of the Confederacy," we were outsiders who had to keep our mouths shut all week long.
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Thompson's amendment would have also banned the statues of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and Confederate Col.
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This isn't the first time the historical debate about the Confederacy has played out in the modern political arena.
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We must also imagine that in every Southern state, local, pro-Union forces took up arms against the Confederacy.
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Her sisters imbibed the same creed as Children of the Confederacy, a civic organization dedicated to the Lost Cause.
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One side said the name evoked the Confederacy, while the other said a name change would cost too much.
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Some scholars believe that the confederacy served as a model for the forefathers who crafted the United States government.
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"So it's the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement — they both lay claim to Georgia's history," Ms. Ufot said.
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The last time a senator was expelled was in 1862 when several of them pledged allegiance to the Confederacy.
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As judges blanketed the former Confederacy with similar court orders, the South was being remade in once-unthinkable ways.
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ST. LOUIS — The angry, divisive fight over public symbols of the Confederacy has swept through Columbia, S.C., Birmingham, Ala.
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The nation has around 700 public memorials to the Confederacy, and most people would say that's more than plenty.
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"They are vilifying the confederacy and Robert E. Lee," he said, sweating, after having a turn at the microphone.
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States' rights have a complicated genealogy, which ties the birth of the Confederacy to Southern resistance to civil rights.
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Founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1894, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) soon spread to the Pacific coast.
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"In what seemed like an instant, the South's 150-year reverence for the Confederacy was shaken," the center said.
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A new Confederate monument was unveiled Sunday in Alabama amid national pressure to take down memorials to the Confederacy.
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While Taney wasn't officially a member of the Confederacy, he stood as a symbol for the support of slavery.
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Kentucky was a slave-holding state at the time of the Civil War but it did not join the Confederacy.
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Silent Sam was erected in 1913 to honor soldiers of the pro-slavery Confederacy killed during the U.S. Civil War.
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Of the more than 1,700 monuments and markers for the Confederacy across the country, this is one of the strangest.
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They're products of a much more recent history, bent on trying to drown out the great failure of the Confederacy.
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Long-distance travel often makes a hash of the body's "synchronised confederacy of clocks", disrupting not only sleep but metabolism.
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His Confederacy vote was the most intriguing moment to me, and that came after his time in the White House.
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A multiethnic democracy requires grappling honestly with the past — and recognizing the symbols of the Confederacy for what they are.
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VIRGINIA, the one state in the old confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, chooses a new governor next year.
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Their primary cry was for the city to take down its Confederate War Memorial and other monuments to the Confederacy.
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Daniel Cryer, Evans' fourth great-grandfather (that is, his great-great-great-great grandfather), served as part of the Confederacy.
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So to move on to the First White House of the Confederacy, just a 20-minute walk away, is bewildering.
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Trump on Thursday again decried the removal of pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy monuments, which have fueled U.S. racial tensions.
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Johnson had been appointed military governor of Tennessee by Lincoln after the Union took the state back from the Confederacy.
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Clark mops up the floor, a symbolic cleansing of the Confederacy, and the preamble becomes more legible as she cleans.
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Some present themselves publicly as being dedicated to benign historical discussion of the Confederacy, but are replete with racism inside.
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"If it's politically incorrect to say I'm a proud Daughter of the Confederacy, then call me politically incorrect," she wrote.
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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to mourn the removal of "beautiful" statues and monuments honoring the Confederacy.
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"This monument only speaks to a certain side of history," she said, adding that her ancestors fought for the Confederacy.
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The monument is privately owned by the Daughters of the Confederacy, a national group dedicated to preserving the Confederate legacy.
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No matter that Robert Lee is Asian-American and his name has nothing to do with the Confederacy or slavery.
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The House of Representatives passed the defense spending bill with a measure preventing the Pentagon from further honoring the Confederacy.
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An Alabama church has removed a pew and plaque that was dedicated to the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.
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Stacey Abrams, a black woman in the heart of the old Confederacy, conceivably has forced a runoff against Brian Kemp.
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It's surreal to see a candidate for political office defend the Confederacy at all, especially 153 years after its defeat.
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There have also been debates across the country about removing monuments and statues to leaders and generals of the Confederacy.
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To Mr. Moss, a supporter of Mr. Trump, the flag represents the heritage of those who fought for the Confederacy.
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The Confederacy was staunchly a decentralized republic, dedicated to the supremacy of the states over the central government in Richmond.
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Mr. Khedery said that a confederacy or a partition of Iraq might be the only remedy for the country's troubles.
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That's right — school segregation in Michigan, New York, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey is worse than in the former Confederacy.
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A new museum in the former capital of the Confederacy situates the conflict in the history of slavery and freedom.
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Given all of this, the idea of Palestinian-Jordanian confederacy does not seem less viable than the other unviable ideas.
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But 62 percent said statues honoring leaders of the Confederacy should remain as historical symbols, including 44 percent of Democrats.
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And that town really exists as a weird fantasy of what it was like to be part of the Confederacy.
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The deal led to the widespread imposition of racial segregation in the old Confederacy under which black voters were disfranchised.
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"The name is outdated and upholds the history of the Confederacy," said Sabrina Javellana, the vice mayor of Hallandale Beach.
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Stanton was a Lincoln holdover, who, while no Radical, fully backed the political destruction of the remnants of the Confederacy.
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The "Solid South," once controlled by Democratic segregationists rooted in the old Confederacy, switched parties to become a Republican redoubt.
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A single star above the word "Arkansas" on the flag symbolizes the Confederacy, per bills passed in 1923 and 1924.
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These tensions have played out symbolically in skirmishes over the fate of historical monuments, specifically public sculptures memorializing the Confederacy.
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Some 11 years later, South Carolina would lead the Confederacy by becoming the first state to secede from the Union.
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Indeed, the 1921 law requires proclamations for six such special observances a year, including two others related to the Confederacy.
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Robert E. Lee and the love for the Confederacy that underpinned the weekend's protests is part of the state's identity.
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"The Confederacy and those individuals who participated was a treasonous act, and we should treat them as such," he said.
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And as reprehensible as the Confederacy was for seceding from the U.S. mostly to defend the barbaric institution of slavery, responding to that historic barbarism with a public call to remove statues to score political points cheapens the legacy of all who fought to end slavery and crush the Confederacy in the first place.
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"These four monuments were put up well after the Civil War was over by an organization called the Cult of the Lost Cause for one purpose, which was to whitewash the Confederacy and intimidate everybody in New Orleans about who was still in control even after the Confederacy lost the war," Landrieu told BuzzFeed.
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Though she and Stonewall were incredibly close through childhood, she never spoke to Stonewall after his decision to support the Confederacy.
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There were some in Britain who wanted to intervene on the side of the Confederacy, because British factories needed Southern cotton.
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The unrest has intensified a national debate over whether monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy are symbols of heritage or hate.
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The monument, erected in 1925, was owned and maintained by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, according to NBC Los Angeles.
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Especially in the dominant Republican Party, many let their rage at the former Confederacy push them to back greater racial equality.
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In photographs taken before the mass shooting, Roof appears posing proudly with the Confederate flag and at sites honoring the Confederacy.
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"The South spent decades reversing the result of the Civil War by honoring the Confederacy infused with this symbology," Beirich said.
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It was clearly fought over the cause of slavery and economics, and the Confederacy was on the wrong side of history.
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Donald Trump is fighting like General Robert E. Lee to preserve the symbols of the Confederacy ... and he's resorting to shame.
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The young man, dressed as a soldier of the Confederacy, gazed reverently at the imposing bronze statue of Lee on horseback.
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Malema was advancing an argument familiar to many Americans calling for statues representing historical figures from the Confederacy to be removed.
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The tree has since been replaced twice, but the Daughters of the Confederacy marked the spot with a plaque in 1912.
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Opponents of such monuments view them as a festering symbol of racism since the Confederacy fought for the preservation of slavery.
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They love bringing that up to deflect from the fact that now the Republicans have become the party of the Confederacy.
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Not all white Southerners supported the Confederacy either, although they opposed it for different reasons than those of enslaved African-Americans.
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Trump in August said he opposed the removal of monuments lionizing the Confederacy, which fought to keep alive and expand slavery.
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These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy — ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.
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In 22016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton in all 22014 states of the old Confederacy except for Virginia, typically by enormous margins.
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We did a long piece about the Confederacy, and I understand that people have different feelings about what those monuments mean.
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But it's impossible to separate the Confederacy from white supremacy, which is why New Orleans worked to tear down these monuments.
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The "mercantile oligarchy" of the South feared that any state intervention would upend the racial caste structure of the old Confederacy.
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In response to Charlottesville, Baltimore, and Lexington, Kentucky, have recently announced their plans to also remove monuments linked to the confederacy.
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That is when the Cherokee, who had fought with the Confederacy, signed a post-Civil War treaty with the United States.
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The statue, unveiled in 1913 with support from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, depicts a Confederate soldier grasping his rifle.
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The statue, unveiled in 1913 with support from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, depicts a Confederate soldier grasping a rifle.
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The latest chapter in the country's continuing reckoning with the legacy of the Confederacy is being written by grade school students.
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The monuments, here in a majority-black city, are considered widely offensive because of their ties to slavery and the Confederacy.
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"Just because Philadelphia wasn't a part of the Confederacy doesn't mean we get a pass," Ms. Gym said in an interview.
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Perhaps the most emblematic complex of structures honoring those who fought for the Confederacy is here in Richmond, its former capital.
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"Now, technically, this was not a 'State of the Union,' because I think in this timeline, the Confederacy won," Colbert said.
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The minstrel song of the same name was adopted as a kind of anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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The Marine Corps is calling for all paraphernalia related to the Confederacy to be removed from its bases around the world.
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The marker says the building was completed in 1864 -- proof, name-change advocates say, that it was linked to the Confederacy.
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Ms. Folt had requested the removal of the statue's base, which included plaques memorializing university students who fought for the Confederacy.
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They were not the first nor will they be the last to resist acknowledging that the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
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Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia, has styled himself as a champion of the Confederacy and its statues.
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At one point it suggested memorials for Generals Lee and Jackson, as well as for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.
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Ms. Ayling said she was "worried about the fact that the Heirs to the Confederacy have been coming to campus armed."
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The Kappa Alpha Order, Mr. Lee's fraternity, has repeatedly drawn criticism for members glorifying the Confederacy at parties and other events.
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Mr. Wilder, a grandson of slaves, won the governorship in the onetime capital of the Confederacy with 50.19 percent of the vote.
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"Free State of Jones," starring McConaughey as the leader of a rebellion against the Confederacy, came in fifth and finished below forecasts.
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Last year, it stopped making and selling the Confederate flag following a wave of public reaction against the symbol of the Confederacy.
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Montgomery, Alabama Also known as the first capital of the Confederacy in the early Civil War period, Montgomery has a complicated history.
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The monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy "in memory of our Confederate Soldiers," the Palm Beach Post reported.
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At the very beginning of Sword of Trust, you see a YouTube video [about how the Confederacy really won the Civil War].
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Only when it became obvious that the terrible schism was inevitable did he consent reluctantly to accept the presidency of the confederacy.
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Other Confederate-era statues remain in the Capitol, including the former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee.
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In seven states, laws prevent local governments from removing monuments, making efforts to remove tributes to the Confederacy that much more difficult.
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I recently visited the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, dedicated to the president of the failed Confederacy during the Civil War.
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The fall of Fort Fisher led to the fall of Wilmington and a critical railroad line, hastening the end of the Confederacy.
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In New York, the society asked permission from the Ramapough Lenape Nation, Moraviantown Delaware Nation, Shinnecock, Unkechaug, Mohegan, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
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Arkansas lawmakers voted down a bill Wednesday to honor Native Americans instead of the Confederacy on their state flag, Arkansas Online reports.
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Republican committee members argued that redefining the star on the flag was a slippery slope to remove other homages to the Confederacy.
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The US military, which defeated the Confederacy after a devastating toll of 620,000 dead, currently used 10 bases named for Confederate soldiers.
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Polk was a West Point graduate but served as an Episcopal priest until he joined the Confederacy, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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In Another Story's case, that includes the nations of Huron-Wendat, Petun, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Mississaugas of the Credit River.
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Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush on Tuesday called for a plaque honoring the Confederacy to be removed from Texas's state Capitol.
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In the Iroquois Confederacy (including the Onandaga, Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga, and later Tuscarora Nations), women participated in all major decision-making.
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Still, their history will continue to live on more than 150 years later as a symbol of Lincoln's approach to the Confederacy.
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In Caddo Parish, men have been hanged outside the courthouse, where a monument to the Confederacy still stands on the front lawn.
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The Union Army defeat of the Confederacy didn't just end slavery, but marked the beginning of the final pacification of the West.
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The Klan's intention was to drive from Pelham across the Virginia border into nearby Danville, the the final capital of the Confederacy.
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He even adopted its talking points about how if monuments celebrating the Confederacy came down, statues of George Washington would be next.
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The resolution had also reportedly proposed changing the names of roads and parks in the area that are associated with the Confederacy.
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But almost no one anticipated such a far-reaching measure during the war, or even after the Confederacy collapsed in May 1865.
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" — referring to the former leader of the Confederacy, then held at Fort Monroe in Virginia — Johnson replied, "Why don't you hang him?
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Johnson's acquittal undid the Union's victory in the Civil War, allowed the Confederacy to win the peace, and nearly destroyed the Republic.
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In the Confederacy, their discontent eventually forced a change to the law, limiting the ability of the wealthy to evade the draft.
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The Charlottesville incident, and the president's remarks, had created a consciousness-raising call to eliminate — or defend — statues associated with the Confederacy.
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My editor and I settled on this topic as a way to address the question of whether Confederacy monuments should be preserved.
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Since that weekend, dozens of universities and cities have begun to remove or are discussing the removal of symbols of the Confederacy.
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The Law of Nature and Nature's God was written into the Declaration of Independence abetted by the elders of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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But legal details aside, how do you make a deal with a group that valorizes something so morally abhorrent as the Confederacy?
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Posner writes that many residents of Ewing were the descendants of Southern migrants whose families supported the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy has vowed to fight back, calling the city's demand "heavy-handed" and "dishonorable" in a statement.
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Only 15 senators have ever been expelled, and 14 of those were on accusations of supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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The memory of the Confederacy is not limited to the South, but rather the result of an entanglement across a geographic divide.
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Fort Negley Park is not a Civil War monument in the South that celebrates the heroism of the Confederacy, in other words.
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The historical record is actually pretty clear: The Confederacy was always about white supremacy, and so are the monuments dedicated to it.
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They argue that these monuments were built originally to honor the Confederacy and the racism and white supremacy that it stood for.
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Historically, judges have been impeached for a variety of reasons — from showing up to work drunk, to joining the Confederacy, to accepting bribes.
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"What the future for their children will be?" the caption read on one post apparently criticizing Americans who don't remember the Confederacy fondly.
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Some argued the name was not about the Confederacy but was linked to a Native American woman whose tribe lived near the area.
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Image: Stephen Nowland, Emory UniversityWith conventional medicines in short supply during the Civil War, the Confederacy turned to plant-based alternatives in desperation.
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And that means we will no longer allow the Confederacy to literally be put on a pedestal in the heart of our city.
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After voting to remove "Old Joe," the city council of Gainesville, Florida, offered it to the local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter.
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The site principally recognizes the Confederacy through the carving and a flag plaza, which includes Confederate national banners and a Confederate battle flag.
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The push to remove these statues is not equivalent to an ahistorical effort to remove the story of the Confederacy from US history.
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After voting to remove "Old Joe," the City Council of Gainesville, Florida, offered it to the local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter.
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Cities across the United States are debating what to do with hundreds of statues, plaques and other monuments to the slave-holding Confederacy.
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But reflecting on two black progressives being competitive in the former Confederacy gives me hope for the future of these rapidly changing states.
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In some parts of the South, the debate has prompted a counter-effort to honor Southern heritage and preserve symbols of the Confederacy.
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In fact, the Civil War was a conflict between the Confederacy and the United States, not one between the South and the North.
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Compared with other recent targets of political iconoclasts—stalwarts of the Confederacy and Cecil Rhodes—Gandhi seems an unlikely symbol of racial arrogance.
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), suggested it's better to include statues of figures from other chapters of U.S. history alongside depictions of the Confederacy.
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According to The New York Times, the Heirs to the Confederacy had organized events in support of the Confederate monument in the past.
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Stewart's zeal for the Confederacy, and sympathy for its aims, can't be ascribed to some familial kinship with those who fought for it.
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The move was met with some local resistance despite the city's profusion of historical markers concerning the Confederacy and the civil rights movement.
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Earlier this week, protesters toppled the controversial "Silent Sam" monument, which was erected in 1913 to honor students who fought for the Confederacy.
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But while state buildings and universities pull one symbol of the Confederacy, an absurd amount of others continue to stand on public grounds.
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Most of the people waiting in line at Conflict Kitchen had never heard of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and that's part of the problem.
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It was almost as if he was complaining about the end of the Confederacy instead of praising the demise of bigotry and racism.
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They were black, I was white and we were in the capital of the Confederacy, where it's not easy to be color-blind.
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The Civil War might have had a different outcome had the North not possessed an overwhelming advantage in industrial capacity over the Confederacy.
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In 1970, the Confederate Museum changed its name to the Museum of the Confederacy to emphasize an interest in scholarship rather than veneration.
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They formed an auxiliary group called the Children of the Confederacy, a program that sought to get kids actively involved in "Southern" history.
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"These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for," Landrieu said.
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They are part of the Haudenosaunee, otherwise known as the Iroquois Confederacy (some reject the name, which the French had assigned to them).
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The Union and the Confederacy did not resolve their differences through dialogue; it was a civil war that put an end to slavery.
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After saying he would work to remove monuments to the Confederacy, he backtracked and said the decision should be left to local officials.
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At a campaign appearance that year, she decried "out-of-state liberals" for trying to tear down the state's monuments to the Confederacy.
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Despite their potential to offend, Facebook's Confederacy pages do not appear to run afoul of the company's standards on issues like hate speech.
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Meanwhile, the former capital of the Confederacy was also the only Southern state that voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 313.
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To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past.
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We in Charlottesville demand the right to express our community values, not be bound by those of the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy.
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As in "Sin City" or "A Confederacy of Dunces," plot is pointedly unimportant to "The Plotters," mostly a medium for satire and repulsion.
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All my relatives fought for the Confederacy and were staunch Baptists and Methodists, and I have actually written a cookbook on Southern cooking.
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Lance Spivey, chairman of the Heirs to the Confederacy, said Monday that both Ms. McCorkle and Mr. Barnett are members of the group.
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This is where the debate gets complicated, raising important questions about the US and its history: What exactly did the Confederacy stand for?
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Jefferson Davis Highway, named for the only president of the Confederacy, will be renamed Richmond Highway, council members decided in a 6-0 vote.
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Historically, 20 members of Congress have been expelled, but almost all of them were kicked out for supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Critics of the monuments say they foster racism by celebrating leaders of the Confederacy in the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War.
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He also called for the removal of a "larger monument" erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the local news outlet Isthmus reported.
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Anglophobia, stirred by Britain's trade with the Confederacy during the civil war and the prominence of Irish-Americans among early ballplayers, assisted this process.
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The alt-right is a vague confederacy of organizations and people submerged in internet and meme culture, as Buzzfeed and other outlets have reported.
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Their numbers include outspoken extremists like Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, which says it wants to spark a new Confederacy.
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Six Flags amusement park in Texas announced it will only fly American flags following criticism that it served as a reminder of the Confederacy.
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After the Civil War, Southern states were quickly returned to the Union with many of the same leaders who had participated in the Confederacy.
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" Templeton went on to talk about her grandmother — "a Daughter of the Confederacy" — and about "standing on the shoulders of giants in South Carolina.
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Borglum was first contacted by United Daughters of the Confederacy member Helen Plane to carve a 70-foot Robert E. Lee on Stone Mountain.
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If the honour primarily owed to that person's support for a cause like segregation, or the Confederacy, then perhaps the monument should come down.
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Then, as now, membership requires proof of lineage to an actual Confederate veteran, much like its sister organization, the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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He has walked a careful line when it comes to the romantic view of the Confederacy that many Virginians both Republican and Democrat hold.
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The history behind these controversies goes back to the U.S. Civil War, which raged between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865.
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It depicts The Angel of the Spirit of the Confederacy hovering above a bronze sculpture of a family sending a soldier off to war.
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Statue honored the Confederacy In August, on the eve of the first day of classes, a group of protesters knocked over the controversial statue.
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Another group, called Heirs to the Confederacy, is expected to raise a Confederate flag where Silent Sam once stood, according to a Facebook post.
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The idea was to limit any well-meaning attempt at negotiation, and to discourage foreign powers from treating the Confederacy as a separate state.
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Under state law, Tennessee's governor must issue proclamations for six days of special observation, three of which pertain to the Confederacy, the paper noted.
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The Senate last expelled a member — a move that requires the support of two-thirds of the chamber — in 1862 for supporting the Confederacy.
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In the aftermath, pictures emerged of the shooter posing with a Confederate flag, which sparked an extensive national debate about symbols of the Confederacy.
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The first one lists places that are directly related to the Confederacy and are considered high priority for immediate action for removal or renaming.
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He won his Senate primary last month despite a history of praising the Confederacy and meeting with a white nationalist and an anti-Semite.
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They lobbied local governments to erect memorials to the Confederacy all over the South, including in prominent public spaces like courthouses and state capitols.
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But two years later, a legal debate continues in Charlottesville about whether the statues that incited the movement are actually monuments to the Confederacy.
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She believed that, by allying with white liberals, those voters could elect a government in the old Confederacy that is responsive to their priorities.
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He did a good job putting the story together and connecting the historical thread from the Confederacy to Charlottesville, David Duke and Donald Trump.
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There are plenty of Civil War buffs, of course, as well as students and scholars who have taken an academic interest in the Confederacy.
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Many of the monuments celebrate figures like Lee, who even today is defended as a critic of slavery who only grudgingly joined the Confederacy.
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By the end of the war, 120,000 Tennesseans had fought for the Confederacy, but a significant number, 31,000, took up arms for the Union.
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Another series in development at HBO will ask us to envision an equally horrid new world: the slaveholding Confederacy continuing to the present day.
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Over the next few decades, the city grew so much that New Orleans was the largest city in the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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A man visiting the museum agreed, saying that Roof did not understand the Confederacy and had merely retrofitted it to his terrible world view.
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What is the point, he seemed to reason, of commemorating the Confederacy if you ignore the reason that it existed in the first place?
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The two plaques honored students and alumni who died fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War and will be moved to another location.
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There are countless monuments to the Confederacy in cemeteries across the country, memorials that went up over a period of 150 years, historians said.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "As you saw, the president stood before a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Confederacy — I mean Union.
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The group, together with its counterpart, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, has been putting up monuments since the end of the 19th century.
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In 2015, Georgia renamed the day "State Holiday" to strike mention of Lee and the Confederacy, though it still falls on the same day.
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That latter campaign comprised 50 Instagram accounts and one Facebook account that produced content focusing on racial tensions, the Confederacy, and other divisive topics.
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Kentucky, the birthplace of both U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was a slave state but did not join the Confederacy.
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The renaming efforts come amid a national debate over remaining markers of the Confederacy and whether Confederate leaders should be memorialized in public works.
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"Where you think there's going to be an altar, there's Lee, waiting to rise up — like the second coming of the Confederacy," he said.
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The statues that were removed by the nonprofit in Memphis include one of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Within hours of the sale, the Forrest monument and an equally despised statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, had been hauled away.
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The Senate has only expelled 15 senators in its history — 14 of whom were kicked out for supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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This narrative gave me permission to ignore the issue of slavery altogether and instead celebrate the Confederacy as a noble stand against centralized authority.
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Thus, from its inception, the Confederacy and its symbols have and continue to signify a desired racial social order by those who glorify them.
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No less a figure than Barack Obama recently called the debate over symbols of the Confederacy a "distraction" while campaigning with Northam in October.
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She mused approvingly about voter suppression; she spoke fondly of the Confederacy; she read from her notes at a debate; she clumsily avoided reporters' questions.
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As Lincoln prepared to take office in March — six weeks later than this year — eight other slave states debated whether they would join the Confederacy.
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But I think the biggest thing he did was keep the European powers from intervening on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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It has been receiving public comment and holding work sessions to weigh the future of the monuments in Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy.
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The violence at Charlottesville spurred many communities across the U.S. to reexamine the appropriateness of statues and other tributes to figures linked to the Confederacy.
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The drama would take place in an alternate history, where the Confederacy won the Civil War (and, therefore, American slavery continued for hundreds of years).
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Sitting opposite the crosswalk was another monument, built in 1942 and paid for by the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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A nationwide movement to remove symbols of the Confederacy was reenergized this summer after the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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But he's questioned elite consensus about the evils of the Confederacy, and about the necessity of condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in strong terms.
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Mr Dodd's inscription notes that more than twice as many locals fought for the Union as for the Confederacy, about which townsfolk still talk bitterly.
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The Petersburg siege and battle over supply lines led to the eventual fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond and the surrender of the Confederacy.
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Pro-enslavement southern Democrats would leave California in support of the Confederacy, leaving the anti-enslavement Republican Party largely in control of the state legislature.
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"It is sad to see Republican candidates touting images of the Confederacy, which to many in this country symbolizes hate and racial oppression," Singh said.
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The monuments honor Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard - leaders of the Confederacy in the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War.
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The Union Navy blockaded Confederate ports, thus Mexico's thousands of miles of coastline not covered by the U.S. Navy were valuable in supplying the Confederacy.
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"The push to remove these statues is not equivalent to an ahistorical effort to remove the story of the Confederacy from US history," Naftali said.
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Draper was born in 21965, a decade after the Swiss-born Frank, in the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, during the Great Depression.
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Though Shapiro does not deny the horrors of slavery or hold up the Confederacy as an entity worthy of praise, his argument is deeply confused.
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Following the Civil War, in the states of the defeated Confederacy—among them, Virginia— Northerners poured in, snapping up elective offices for personal financial gain.
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Just as as tangible as airplanes, computers and contraception, The Roman Empire, the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States of America are also human inventions.
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Manufacturers even successfully lobbied Congress to allow the purchase of cotton from the Confederacy to replace the shoddy uniforms they were making for Union troops.
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In the flag's current iteration, the Confederacy star is above the state's name, while three other stars that symbolize other key elements of state history.
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Afterward, several states in the South began to reconsider monuments or symbols of the Confederacy, which critics felt glorified the history of racism and slavery.
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The home sheltered Continental Army troops during the Revolutionary War and housed slaves who escaped from the Confederacy during the Civil War, according to Airbnb.
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Sessions also seemed to link California's unwillingness to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to the secession of Southern states and the creation of the Confederacy.
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She also believed slaves were happy servants, was ardently against women's suffrage, and often spoke publicly at pro-Confederacy events in full Southern belle LARP.
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The statue, which featured prominently in a central quadrangle called McCorkle Place, was unveiled in 1913 with support from the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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The head of the United Daughters of the Confederacy said on Tuesday the group denounced hate groups and asked people to leave Confederate monuments alone.
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Some of them, he says, cling to the past so tightly that they are willing to deny certain realities about the Confederacy and the war.
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Wind Gap is a particularly southern-inflected part of Missouri; one episode turns on "Calhoun Day," a local Civil War commemoration sympathetic to the Confederacy.
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Abraham Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Weaver said, until after Union troops turned back the Confederacy at the bloody battle of Antietam.
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So the only times a member has been expelled is when that member sided with the Confederacy or had been convicted of a federal crime.
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He strongly believed in self-reliance but demanded an interventionist government to free slaves, defeat the Confederacy and protect black citizens from terror and discrimination.
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Both series will land in an America that seems as racially divided as ever, where symbols of the Confederacy are still the subject of headlines.
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"For Speaker Ryan to hide behind states' rights to defend the symbols of the Confederacy is as shameful as it is preposterous," Mr. Hammill said.
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In Montreal, a downtown department store, Hudson's Bay, removed a plaque commemorating an 1867 visit by Jefferson Davis, who was the president of the Confederacy.
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So when people ask why, in 2017, most white people in the South don't do more to confront the memory of the Confederacy, that's why.
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The wide green medians on the avenue provide open space for new sculptures of those who resisted slavery, the Confederacy, the institution of Jim Crow.
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Sam Houston is viewed a Texas hero after he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy when the state seceded from the Union in 1861.
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"Town Destroyer" was the name given to Washington by the people of the Iroquois Confederacy, whose villages were burned and pillaged during the Revolutionary War.
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But Reconstruction also ended without reparations, and by 1878, white Democrats had used force and fraud to overthrow Republican state governments across the former Confederacy.
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The Confederacy groups are not purveyors of truth; they are promoting a narrative that pollutes contemporary American historical memory and bolsters modern-day white supremacists.
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That sparked a court challenge by the group that donated the statue in 1907, the Winnie Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Silent Sam is the nickname of the statue of a Confederate soldier, which was erected at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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" Chuck Todd, voice shaking, stated that Trump "conflated the Confederacy with the American Revolution..." ..."When's the last time you saw a President defend white nationalism?
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In several cities, statues and memorials to the Confederacy and to those who fought for the South in the Civil War have also been removed.
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AAB: My great-grandfather was a missionary, the first missionary to the Siksika reserve, which is one of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the one nearest Calgary.
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Some monuments may look like they glorify the Confederacy, but are actually dedicated to the Union or celebrate reunification, or may even be completely unrelated.
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Some fly the Southern Cross -- once a symbol of the Confederacy during the Civil War; today seen by many as a badge of the racist right.
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Meanwhile, a variable geometry confederacy -- of the type David Cameron had requested and which the UK might want to join after 2019 -- requires a consolidated eurozone.
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Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, led torch-wielding protesters in rallying around a statue of Confederacy leader Robert E. Lee slated for removal in the city.
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In Richmond, Virginia, once a capital of the confederacy, Democratic Mayor Levar Stoney has called for adding context to old monuments, rather than tearing them down.
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Merchants are following the market: in Trump-voting bits of white America, such as rural Pennsylvania, affection for the Confederacy has floated free of ancestral loyalties.
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The men put in bald terms what defenders of the Confederacy seldom stated or even acknowledged: the deeply racist history behind the statues and their subjects.
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After the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865, all this disappeared: wealth for the top 1% dropped by 76% between the censuses of 1860 and 1870.
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A report released by Austin's Equity Office last week suggests renaming Austin and rechristening a number of other streets, markers and parks that honor the Confederacy.
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" Alexander H. Stephens, the former vice president of the Confederacy, argued the war "was not a contest between the advocates or opponents of that peculiar institution.
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Opponents of monuments to the Confederacy, which fought in the U.S. Civil War for the preservation of slavery, view them as a festering symbol of racism.
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Thousands of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, and defenders of the legacy of the Confederacy have converged this afternoon for a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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The big picture: No senator has been expelled since the Civil War, with 14 out of 15 prior expulsions having been for support of the Confederacy.
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After Donald Trump tweeted Thursday about how "foolish" it was to tear down statues and memorials dedicated to the Confederacy, unsurprisingly, people were up in arms.
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Washington (CNN)Killer Mike, the rapper who endorsed and campaigned for Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary, announced Thursday a new line of anti-Confederacy merchandise.
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He also said there were "very fine" people marching in those protests who, he argued, have legitimate concerns about the removal of statues commemorating the Confederacy.
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The monuments themselves feature inscriptions that openly bemoan Union victories over the Confederacy, and white supremacists still embrace them as relics of a triumphantly racist age.
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The commemoration reflected the resilience of what some historians call the lost colony of the Confederacy in this region of sugar cane fields and textile factories.
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Davis lived in Montgomery briefly before Richmond, Va., became the capital of the Confederacy in 1861, according to The Associated Press, which first reported the news.
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Afterward, several states in the American South began to reconsider monuments or symbols of the Confederacy, which critics felt glorified the history of racism and slavery.
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It's a rare contested candidate who can win in both the old Confederacy and the heart of Yankee America, but Trump has pulled off that feat.
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It'd be an exceedingly rare circumstance: The last time the Senate expelled a member was 1862, when it booted Southern state senators for supporting the Confederacy.
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Multiple cities in the South — including Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, and Lexington, Ky. — are contemplating either planned or hastened removals of Confederate monuments.
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Only fifteen senators have been formally expelled from the Senate, and of those 14 were Civil War era members who were tossed for supporting the Confederacy.
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It's about Newton Knight, a white man in Mississippi during and after the Civil War, who organizes and mounts a somewhat successful rebellion against the Confederacy.
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He knew what it would cost him in status throughout the old Confederacy, but he did it anyway, because it was the right thing to do.
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According to the AP, the statue in Chatham County sat on private property owned by the a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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We saw it when George Washington's mixed feelings about slavery gave way in the South to the "positive good" credo of John Calhoun and the Confederacy.
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Unlike Zobrist, Phillips never made an All-Star team, but also Van Gogh couldn't sell a painting and A Confederacy of Dunces couldn't find a publisher.
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That would have been an almost impossible feat for any other blockade runner, but, by the end of the War, Trenholm was Treasurer of the Confederacy.
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One suspect is affiliated with the Heirs to the Confederacy, a group that caused distress after they walked around UNC's campus on March 16 bearing weapons.
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It was on its shores that the Iroquois Confederacy — a democratic treaty between five warring nations, a constitutionally recognized precursor to the U.S. Constitution — was formed.
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"This is the former capital of the Confederacy, and J.E.B. Stuart is an individual who fought to preserve slavery," said Jason Kamras, the Richmond schools superintendent.
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A city of 223,000 people, Richmond was the former capital of the Confederacy, and its streets, public plaques, and monuments reflect the history of the period.
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WASHINGTON — Democratic nominees for governor include three African-Americans, two of them in the old Confederacy, a prospect that not long ago would have been unthinkable.
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"For Speaker Ryan to hide behind states' rights to defend the symbols of the Confederacy is as shameful as it is preposterous," Hammill said by email.
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Plenty of Americans find themselves conflicted about recent efforts to remove monuments to the Confederacy, be they statues or the names of buildings, highways or schools.
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An excellent scholarly biography by Joan E. Cashin was published in 2006, and she drifts through Mary Chesnut's astringent memoirs prophesying the failure of the Confederacy.
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Members of the organization had argued their free speech rights were violated after the monuments and statues were removed given their unique ties to the Confederacy.
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It was in the presidential transition period between 1860 and 1861 that the U.S. unraveled into the Union and the Confederacy, the so-called Secession Winter.
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In Los Angeles on Wednesday, the United Daughters of the Confederacy asked the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to remove a monument that since 1925 honored Confederate veterans.
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Harlan ultimately opposed secession and fought against the Confederacy, but he also opposed the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's re-election bid, and the 13th and 14th Amendments.
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A major reason is that he served as president of the University of Virginia after the defeat of the Confederacy in the war between the states.
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Beyond partisan politics, the scandals involving Northam and Herring were a raw reminder that the past is never dead in the old capital of the Confederacy.
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Now, after Saturday's violent protest in Charlottesville, two more cities have decided to start the long and controversial process of removing statues linked to the Confederacy.
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Of the 15 senators who have ever been expelled in the body's history, all but one were kicked out because of their support for the Confederacy.
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Hundreds of white nationalists had gathered in Charlottesville to protest the planned removal a statue honoring the U.S. Civil War-era Confederacy from a public park.
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The ruling was the latest blow in an ongoing national fight over memorials to the pro-slavery Confederacy, which lost in the 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War.
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Espy, if elected, would be the first black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, the period after the Civil War that ended with the defeat of the Confederacy.
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That shooting, and incidents such as a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year, have had many communities in the South reconsidering the legacy of the Confederacy.
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Echoing a local conservative radio host, it suggested renaming a Virginian highway—celebrating Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy—after Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish general and statesman.
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What this new report about the symbols of the Confederacy shows is that as a nation, we're still learning just how deeply that history has been entrenched.
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Eventually, with the Emancipation Proclamation in 271, Lincoln announced that all slaves in the Confederacy — but not the four slave states that didn't rebel — would be free.
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At least 60 publicly funded symbols of the Confederacy have been removed or renamed since the mass shooting in Charleston, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Alabama Both the state Senate and House approved the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, which prohibits making changes to standing monuments, including those honoring the Confederacy.
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The big picture: No senator has been expelled since the Civil War with 14 out of 15 prior expulsions having been for support of the Confederacy. Sen.
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Debate over Confederate symbols The St. Louis monument's removal comes as communities across the South have taken a more critical eye toward public symbols of the Confederacy.
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Cassandra Lafser, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office, told CNN the statue was a gift from the Daughters of the Confederacy, given to the city in 1911.
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When we honor and celebrate the Confederacy in public arenas, we validate and empower the people who wish to perpetuate the hatred and division that it represents.
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It was one of the few major monuments to Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg that was not paid for by taxpayers in the states of the former Confederacy.
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Dr. Robertson said his fascination with the Civil War was kindled when his grandmother told him tales about his great-grandfather, who had fought for the Confederacy.
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And yet President Trump's rallies for Hyde-Smith will, in essence, reaffirm white reverence for the former Confederacy and may succeed in boosting her chances of victory.
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Despite having joined forces with the show's mentally unstable main character Elliot Alderson and his hacker confederacy fsociety, Wellick is not above questioning the group's corny iconography.
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Jesse Helms, Wilkie publicly defended his boss's support of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization whose logo included the Confederate flag, the Post reported Tuesday.
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But Confederate and East Confederate Avenues were not named directly after the Confederacy per se, according to Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center.
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This reading absolves the Confederacy of its desire to preserve slavery and frames the conflict as a hero's fight for states' rights and the preservation of heritage.
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Like I said, I think what settler meant during confederacy and the negotiation of Canada as a nation doesn't mean the same thing that it means today.
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In his book, The Culture of Defeat, historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch likens the Lost Cause to the Christ myth, and the fall of the Confederacy to the Crucifixion.
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No other vehicles or pedestrians will be allowed into the park, where a monument to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and Gens.
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Ad buyers can select audiences based on details like a user's location, political leanings and interests as specific as the Museum of the Confederacy or online gambling.
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They sought to collect and preserve the artifacts of war, as well as archival material, which they believed would help tell a "truthful" history of the Confederacy.
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The culture still tends to think of American racism as a disease of the Confederacy rather than as a national pastime with particular regional traditions, like barbecue.
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If he wins in November, he would be the first black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction (and just the second from any state in the former Confederacy).
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At the same time, the pride that descendants of the Confederacy have in their ancestors is very real and isn't going to go away any time soon.
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Sid talked about the killed crops, and at Firekeepers, a waitress noted that the Onondaga were targeted because they served as the capital of the Haudenosaunee confederacy.
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And in her free time she would draw portraits and read "A Confederacy of Dunces," John Kennedy Toole's tale of an isolated young man, again and again.
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Mr. Stewart, a Minnesota transplant who has defended the Confederacy and praised white nationalists, has seized opportunities to gain media attention, especially with harsh remarks about immigrants.
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In addition to owning slaves, they supported the Whigs and became ardent supporters of the Confederacy, sending two of their sons to fight in the Civil War.
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Mr. Griffin, an Auburn University graduate who had become radicalized by books and in online forums that had little to do with the Confederacy, was among them.
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It said that the government would take 400,000 acres that it had seized from the Confederacy and split it up among those thousands of newly emancipated people.
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Neither work celebrated the Confederacy or slavery, however, and both were created as art rather than as public memorials like some of the statues now being removed.
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Political historians have long described the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as the oldest continuously functioning democracy in the world; Wagner reminds us that those democratic principles extended to women.
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A growing number of U.S. political leaders have called for statues honoring the Confederacy to be taken down, with civil rights activists charging that they promote racism.
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Mason's ancestors also fought for the Confederacy, but she did not grow up steeped in that history and said she could see both sides of the debate.
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The statue, which depicts a Confederate soldier holding a rifle, was proposed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and approved by the university's board in 1908.
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Virginia in recent years has worked to move past its history as the capital of the Confederacy and to promote its young, educated and diverse work force.
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