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Is the Use of “White Supremacy” Anachronistic in Writing About the Confederacy and Reconstruction?

Note: 19th Century articles in this post include racist terms to insult African Americans and persons of mixed-race ancestry.  I recently described President Andrew Johnson…

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A Question for Readers: Were White Supremacy & Black Civil Rights Irreconcilable?

I was watching a lecture by historian David Blight in which he says one of the key challenges of Reconstruction after emancipation and Confederate defeat…

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Posted in Ku Klux Klan Videos White Supremacy

Video Lecture: The Rise of the Southern Conservative Response to Reconstruction and the Klu Klux Klan

Professor Robert Kenzer of the University of Richmond gives a lecture on the “rise of the Southern conservative response and the Klu Klux Klan.” Very…

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Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,

Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…

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Posted in White Supremacy Apologetics

A Mississippi Judge Explains the Need for White Domination of the South

We are tempted to imagine that white supremacist propaganda was always presented in the non-standard English of the barely literate. That was not true. Many…

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