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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history

Posted by Kuromantis
Tags: united daughters of the confederacy, usa, politics, racism, slavery, jim crow, education, american civil war, statues, confederacy, history.military, war.civil, author.coleman lowndes, videos, vox
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Vox
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6:56
Published
Oct 25 2017

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    Tl;Dr an organization called the United Daughters of the Confederacy decided that they couldn't preserve racism or at least the racial social caste without rewriting a lot of US Southern history...

    Tl;Dr an organization called the United Daughters of the Confederacy decided that they couldn't preserve racism or at least the racial social caste without rewriting a lot of US Southern history to make it look good, so they did just that.

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