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Fun fact: White women were instrumental in fundraising to erect confederate monuments.The United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in the 1890s, was arguably the most important and influential group according to historians.
UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, where statesâ rights and white supremacy remained intact.
Since the UDC was founded in 1894, it has maintained a covert connection with the Ku Klux Klan.
Since the UDC was founded in 1894, it has maintained a covert connection with the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1914, they published a pro KKK book â for children. Laura Martin Rose "The Ku Klux Klan, or Invisible Empire."Â Itâs a love letter to the Klan for its handiwork in domestic terror in the years following the Civil War, when blacks achieved a modicum of political power.
The UDC was busiest during the 1910s and 1920s, two decades during which the group erected hundreds of Confederate monuments that made tangible the racial terror of Jim Crow. This includes a monument to the KKK in 1926.
Their biggest goal was to indoctrinate white children into white supremacy.
Their approach was multi-pronged.
Going into schools and putting up battle flags and portraits of generals. Getting schools renamed for famous Confederates.
Their approach was multi-pronged.
Going into schools and putting up battle flags and portraits of generals. Getting schools renamed for famous Confederates.
Creating the Children of the Confederacy, which was their formal youth auxiliary, so that the UDC could draw membership from the group when they became adults. Children were always involved in the unveiling of monuments.
They would select one child to pull the cord, and then thereâd be cheers when the monument was unveiled.
Children in the stands would form what they called a âliving battle flag.â Then they sang Southern âpatrioticâ songs.
Children in the stands would form what they called a âliving battle flag.â Then they sang Southern âpatrioticâ songs.
They sought to teach children through history lessons that slaves were faithful and devoted â usually ready and willing to serve their masters.
In 1923 they tried to erect a monument in D.C. âin memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South.â The Senate signed off on it.
In 1923 they tried to erect a monument in D.C. âin memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South.â The Senate signed off on it.
Present tense. The organization still exists. And they have at least 25,000 members in 700+ chapters across 32 states. Despite being labeled as a neo-confederate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are tax exempt because theyâre a non-profit. https://twitter.com/sheltiemac/status/1322901549283233794
