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Shelby Foote on William Faulkner and the American South
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H.K. Edgerton will be Grand Parade Marshal at Andersonville Historic Fair
Cynthia StormCaller P.O.Box 6 Andersonville, Georgia 31711 info@andersonvillegeorgia.info 229-924-2558 The Andersonville Guild, sponsor of the Andersonville Historic Fair, is proud to announce that H.K. Edgerton will be the grand parade marshal for this year’s event on October 3 and 4, 2015. H. K. Edgerton is an Asheville, North Carolina ex-NAACP president that is an activist [...]
GA SCV Specialty Plates Reinstated
From: 'Patricia S. Godwin' oldsouthrebel@zebra.net [FlagFight] <FlagFight@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [FlagFight] Ga SCV Plates To: FlagFight@yahoogroups.com After this hard fought fight, EVERY GEORGIA DIV SCV member should have an SCV tag on at least one of his vehicles! I have said this in Ala for years! We did [...]
The Confederate monument known as “Old Joe” – Speech by Chairman Tubbs
Michael Hill posted in League of the South. Michael Hill September 24 at 4:52pm Below is a copy of a speech prepared by Florida LS State Chairman Michael Tubbs to be delivered to the Alachua County Board of Commissioners. The speech is in regards to the proposed [and now, sadly, approved] removal of the monument [...]
Dispelling the Myths
History books, the media, the school systems, etc abound in falsehoods and inaccuracies of Confederate and Southern history. This fact sheet will help to clarify and dispell some of these rampant inaccuracies. MYTH - The War of 1861 - 1865 was fought over slavery. FACT - Terribly untrue. The North fought the war [...]
No serious historian argues that Forrest organized the Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Ku Klux Klan! Forrest was the Grand Wizard of the KKK! Whenever a controversy concerning Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest arises these statements are sure to appear in print, in electronic media, and on broadcast news.[1] These statements have been repeated so often that they have been accorded the [...]
Alachua County will give ‘Old Joe’ Confederate statue to museum
County will give 'Old Joe' Confederate statue to museum In this July 9 file photo, Jeanne Galligan, right, argues with a man who did not want to give his name about the removal of a Confederate statue outside the Alachua County Administration building in Gainesville. Matt Stamey/Gainesville Sun By April Warren Staff writer After [...]
Hastings MI: School asks students not to display Confederate flag
School asks students not to display Confederate flag Associated Press8:22 a.m. EDT September 23, 2015 Hastings school district asks students not to have symbol on their vehicles or clothing during school hours. (Photo: daboost, Getty Images, iStockphoto) 663CONNECT 23TWEETLINKEDIN 79COMMENTEMAILMORE HASTINGS, Mich. — A school district in western Michigan has asked students not to display [...]
History must be purged!
Friday, September 25, 2015 History must be purged! This past week our local “big town” newspaper, The Gainesville Daily Worker Sun published an editorial calling for the renaming of the Alachua County Public Schools Administrative Center. The center is named for Edmund Kirby-Smith, Confederate General, Educator, and proud son of Florida. I’ll spare you the [...]
Revisiting 25 Years of Revisionist Claptrap
Revisiting 25 Years of Revisionist Claptrap By Gail Jarvis on Sep 24, 2015 With its usual promotional hype, PBS re-broadcasted its 1990 program The Civil War. This 25-year-old program, along with Jazz and Baseball constitutes Ken Burns’ trilogy on racial relations. Wanting to make the Civil War “comprehensible to a contemporary audience”, Burns chose to [...]