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Series on How Confederate Heritage Impacts Alabama Wins Pulitzer Prize
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com in Birmingham, Alabama has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his excellent series on the impact of Confederate heritage on…
Senator Clay Explained Why Alabama Seceded in His January 22, 1861 Speech Resigning from the Senate
Clement Claiborne Clay, was one of six Southern senators who gave speeches on January 21, 1861 resigning from the U.S. Senate. Clay’s speech was delivered…
Grand Opening of US Colored Troops Heritage Trail Nov. 12, 2022 Near Mobile, Ala.
On November 12, 2022, the park near Mobile, Alabama at the site of the Battle of Fort Blakeley will hold the grand opening of its…
The Confederate Daughter Who Rewrote Alabama’s Civil War History
The Birmingham New has an outstanding article on the Daughter of the Confederacy who helped rewrite the State of Alabama’s Civil War and Reconstruction history….
Montgomery, Alabama’s Confederate Memory and Black Erasure
Kyle Whitmire of the Birmingham News is writing a series called “State of Denial” which looks at how Alabama tells its history, valorizing the Confederate…
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,…
The 1901 Alabama Constitution Was Justified Based on Civil War and Reconstruction History
Earlier this month I wrote about the effort in Alabama to delete racist language in its constitution put in during the decades after Reconstruction in…
Alabama Spending Half-Million Annually on Confederate Memorial Park: WaPo
The Washington Post has an article on expenditures by the State of Alabama to support the Confederate Memorial Park. The park is on the site…
Alabama May Remove Racist Language in Constitution that Overthrew Reconstruction
In 1901 Alabama dealt a final blow to the reforms instituted three decades earlier during Reconstruction when it all but eliminated African American voting in…
General Meade Outlaws Ku Klux Propaganda April 1868
On April 7, 1868 New York Times reported on an effort by General George Gordon Meade to halt pro-Klan propaganda efforts . Meade had commanded…
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