Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Podcast: Kidada Williams on the History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Chris Hayes of MSNBC interviewed Professor Kidada E. Williams about her new book “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the…
Stone Mountain Still a Lost Cause Shrine
In the Spring of 2021, the state agency managing Stone Mountain in Georgia promised to begin altering the Lost Cause presentation of the Civil War…
Religion and Confederate Ideology in Brazil After the Civil War
Baptist News reports on the influence of the Confederacy on Brazil over the 150 years after former Confederates and Southern Baptists went to the South…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
Washington Post on Black “Son” of Jefferson Davis
The Washington Post had an interesting article today on a Black child whom has been depicted as Confederate President Jeff Davis’s adopted son. The photo…
Sixty Years After the Civil War, Mississippi Legislators Were Still Trying to Expel Blacks
The Washington Post has an article today on the vote by the Mississippi legislature to create a colony in Africa where its Black population could…
Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters
The Birmingham News has an in-depth article by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…
Martin Luther King on How the History of Reconstruction Was Distorted
Martin Luther King delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech,…
Washington Post Database Identifies 1,700 Slaveowners In Senate and Congress
The Washington Post has put together a remarkable database of Members of Congress and Senators who owned slaves. You can find the article explaining the…
Jefferson Davis and the Constitutional Right to Own Slaves
Many of us learned in school to revere the Constitution as a “Charter of Freedom,” a Magna Carta of rights for the ordinary citizen. More…
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