They are but one group of fleas continuing to sprout up, rooting themselves into the skin of American history’s whitewashed past. UDC still exist for a reason - and there will be groups like them and Moms well into the future. The more we focus exclusively on them as book banners, the bigger their platform and egos grow. Moms for Liberty are not the only group actively working against First Amendment Rights for all, and stating that so plainly matters.

Thus why politicians continue to buy into it and pass laws which come directly from the small, but loud and well-connected bigots. The tactics, the language, and the methods are the same…and so, too, is it the same that history repeats itself when history is erased by such groups. This, for those who might be unfamiliar with the phrase, is the Lost Cause mythology. Tyler, who was the son of 10th president John Tyler, defended the notion that Northerners only ended slavery because of their climate and that they were far more cruel owners than their southern counterparts who were caring, gentle, and loyal to the people they enslaved. Indeed, the UDC lobbied and advocated for a specific version of history to be taught in southern classrooms, based in Lyon Gardiner Tyler’s Catechism on the History of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865. In doing so, they hoped to “tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die.” UDC members created an offshoot of their organization called the Children of the Confederacy, wherein young people were taught a version of the Civil War and Southern Heritage that never existed but, indeed, was a mythos of White Supremacy.Īlthough commemorating Civil War history became the UDC’s biggest cause, it was far from their only one. The UDC saw their primary mission as supporting and encouraging the erection of confederate monuments across the south. UDC established both a national chapter and chapters throughout member states in the south, their messaging coming from the top and disseminating down to the ground.

These women, all white, established themselves as the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in Nashville and set to work venerating the history of the Confederacy. In 1894, a group of women banded together to honor their history and legacy.

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