Wright's fight for her family's land reflects incredibly high stakes for the preservation of a Black family's roots on Hilton Head Island. They've had the home since the Civil War.
They're threatening forced removal if the disputed leader doesn't step down today.
(Washington Post) — “Dixie,” that emotionally freighted and much-debated anthem of the old Confederacy, starts soft when it’s done right, barely above a whisper. But each sotto voce syllable of the opening verse, each feather-light scrape of the fiddle strings, could be heard without straining when the ladies in the hoop skirts and the men […]
(Bellingham Herald) — White and black. Pro-Confederacy. Anti-Confederacy. A secession ball, one of the first major events to mark the 150th anniversary of the events that led to the Civil War, divided many Charlestonians on Monday night and got sesquicentennial commemorations off to a divisive start. Ball organizers and roughly 120 people who gathered in […]
(AP)–At South Carolina’s Secession Gala, men in frock coats and militia uniforms and women in hoopskirts will sip mint juleps as a band called Unreconstructed plays “Dixie.” In Georgia, they will re-enact the state’s 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a mock swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Across the South, preparations are under […]
By omitting the history of slavery from Civil War commemorations, we are ignoring the fact that slavery served as the backbone of the 11 succeeding states' economies.
Why does the old Confederacy want to honor racism and savagery?