Category: White Supremacy
Reconstruction and “The Limits of Black Forgiveness”
I like to link readers of The Reconstruction Era Blog to scholars writing online. Scott Hancock is a professor of History and Africana Studies at…
Scholar of German Holocaust Memory Discusses How Confederacy Is Remembered Today
The New Yorker brought in philosopher Susan Neiman this week to answer questions about the commemoration of the Confederacy in the modern United States. A…
Watch Video of Armed Militiamen Confronting Pastor Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt at Gettysburg
The far-right militiamen who assembled fully armed at Gettysburg on July 4th mobbed a Methodist pastor in the National Cemetery there because he was wearing…
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby published by University of Virginia Press, 272 pages (2020) Hardcover…
Man in BLM T-Shirt “Removed” from Gettysburg Cemetery Armed Right-Wing Militia and KKK Mobilize to Occupy Gettysburg for July 4
On Saturday July Fourth a man was removed from Gettysburg National Cemeterywhere he was visiting the grave of an ancestor because he was wearing a…
Family of KKK Leader General John B. Gordon Asks that His Statue Be Removed in Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the family of Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate general John B. Gordon be removed from the grounds of…
Confederate Monument Dedications in NC Often Were Explicitly Racist
In a 2017 newspaper article, scholar Brian Fennessy wrote that in researching Confederate monument dedication speeches in North Carolina “I searched for dedication speeches that…
New Report Says 2,000 Blacks Lynched During Reconstruction Era
A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) says that from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the traditional close of…
Confederate Veteran William Simkins Describes His Role in the Ku Klux Klan
William Simkins was a professor of law at the University of Texas in Austin on Thanksgiving in 1914 when he decided to use his speech…
Tour of University of Texas Racial Geography, Emancipation, and The Lost Cause
The University of Texas now has a Racial Geography Tour of the famous campus in Austin. The tour can be explored in person or virtually…
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