How Confederate propaganda landed in schoolbooks

[struggle4progress]

By Greg Huffman
April 10, 2019

... students .. enrolled in the South's public elementary and secondary schools between 1889, when the government began counting students, and 1969, the height of the segregationist Jim Crow era ... were subjected to the alternative reality of the Lost Cause, a false version of U.S. history developed in response to Reconstruction that minimizes slavery's central role in the Civil War, promotes the Confederacy's aim as a heroic one, glorifies the Ku Klux Klan, and portrays the white South as the victim.

The poisonous Lost Cause lessons were taught to multiple generations of Southerners to uphold institutionalized white supremacy — in part through public school curriculums shaped by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). More famous these days for their controversial Confederate monuments, the UDC had an almost singular focus on making sure the Lost Cause propaganda was so ingrained in the minds of Southern youth that it would be perpetual. Their most effective tool? School textbooks ...

At its annual reunion in Atlanta in 1919, the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) set up a committee to promulgate the Lost Cause version of history through textbooks. It brought together the most prominent Confederate heritage associations — UCV, UDC, and Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Each appointed five members. It came to be known as the Rutherford Committee after its most prominent member, Mildred Lewis Rutherford ...

Another prominent member of the committee was Julian S. Carr, the former Confederate general and North Carolina industrialist. He's now infamous for his 1913 speech at the dedication of the UDC's "Silent Sam" Confederate veterans monument formerly on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill in which he urged support for white supremacy and called it a "pleasing duty" to horsewhip a "Negro wench" for allegedly publicly insulting a "Southern lady" ...

https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=aa4c8150-6b85-43a0-afa2-f5871fa0cea6

[BigmanPigman]

1. My mom told me about moving to FL for a year

and being taught in public school that the South had won the Civil War. This article reminded me of that story. This was during the 1940s too.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I was moved from rural Ohio to segregated Florida in the 1950s and

remember well how 'history' changed.

[JI7]

3. everyone should read this article

[OxQQme]

4. It continues......

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Texas_Board_of_Education

https://tfn.org/issue/textbook-censorship/

https://qz.com/1273998/for-10-years-students-from-texas-have-been-using-a-history-textbook-that-says-not-all-slaves-were-unhappy/

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/14/history-curriculum-texas-remembers-alamo-forgets-hillary-clinton-helen-keller

[OxQQme]

6. In addition.....

As a 78yr old, I can look back into the false precepts I was 'taught' during my formative years from about 9th grade.
In my view, psyops re-written american history taught in our schools has been in effect for a long time.

If you believe this is an operation that is used only in foreign countries, I believe you're mistaken.
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/special-operations/psyop.html

Who would come to know that the majority of the cattle operations of the early west, consisted of 'freed' slaves as horsemen,
if we were stuck in what we learned as children from our text books teaching how to be a good cog in the 'system'of the future?

Or any word of small pox infected blankets 'gifted' to the natives?

Or who the Puritans really were in their 'home' country and why they left en-masse?

I don't talk about my views of -before the 'god/moses' episode- of World History too much, as most consider it to be too woo'ish.
I mean, are those thousands and thousands of clay tablets written by the scribes of their time to be portrayed as myth?
If not, but are truth, then what of our understanding of our current world?

Arc of the Covenant as 'super capacitor' used to atomize gold into manna (from heaven) to be consumed to make one 'god-like'.
PSHAW! you say.
google "arc of the covenant as super capacitor"

I would say that the bible is propaganda written for the removal of the matriarchal dominant world view that had existed for thousands of years.

The world we're living in now has the appearance of the 'biblical' psyop which has reached it's peak culmination.
Thankfully, the ages turn and the next one should be a more balanced maculine/feminine vibe.

List of Mesopotamian deities --> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mesopotamian_deities.

Instead of the 'Giza' pyramid being a granary (how could anyone be so stupid), it was a power generating machine?
https://aleximreh.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/the-pyramids-of-egypt-were-giant-electric-power-plants/

Let's not stop at Confederate history.

Pull all the curtains back.

Resist.

[rownesheck]

5. Lord.

Reading some of the comments after the article made me want to resurrect General Sherman so he could burn the south back into submission.

Racists, racists everywhere, but not a brain among them.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R