Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race
From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…
Definition of Scalawag: A “Southron who…lives upon the sickening odors of negro love.”
“Scalawag” was a derogatory term for white Southerners who joined the Republican Party or otherwise aided in the Reconstruction project of the Federal government. Scalawags…
Black Troops Engage in Anti-Klan Operations in Tennesee in February 1868
The Klan did not simply run roughshod over the countryside in 1868. Army detachments, including black U.S. soldiers, were sent to combat the Klan. One…
The Real Enemy of Blacks Is Not Whites, It Is Poor White Southerners Says NY World January 1869
The New York World is often described as the newspaper that most reflected the views of the national leadership of the Democratic Party during the…
Poll: How Much Does the History of Slavery Impact Modern African Americans?
A new survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago shows that while older white Americans still question the long-term effects…
Podcast: Why We Can’t Buy Disney’s Song of the South on DVD or Stream It on Disney+
Disney is beginning a new streaming service that will stream the entire Disney library, with one notorious exception. The one film that won’t be streamed…
John C. Calhoun Was Right, The Next Step Really Is Negro Equality January 1869
John C. Calhoun was nearly two decades in his grave in 1869, but white conservatives saw his prophecies that Northerners would not stop short of…
Freedom Under the Confiscation Act: What One Man’s Freedom Papers Tell Us About Black Resistance to Slavery
There was emancipation even before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The March 1862 Confiscation Act allowed the Union Army to free slaves who had been…
British Newspaper The Guardian on Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates”
Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates continues to garner interest in the press. The British paper The Guardan has an article on it today….
“We Must Escape Equality With the Negroes” The Fondest Hope for White Virginians in the New Year of 1869
The reason for opposing the Reconstruction of Virginia was the forced integration of the races, according to this article in the Petersburg Daily Express. The…