Washington was celebrating Tuskegee Institute’s 25th year, speaking beside Mark Twain. The Montgomery Advertiser called the ceremony “one of the largest masses of white people ever before witnessed in Tuskegee.” Confederate flags waved and 13 young women were dressed in crimson and white to represent the Confederate states.Īt that same time, Booker T. The Tuskegee Confederate Memorial was erected in 1906 by Tuskegee Chapter 419 of the UDC on land given by the county government to the UDC as a “park for white people.” It was dedicated on Oct. 6, 1909. “I think the children should know what their history is, even if it’s not politically correct these days.” she said. 57, said UDC tries to get into schools, in her words, to set the history record straight, but they aren’t always permitted. At the 1907 UDC General Convention, founder Goodlett said the “grandest monument (they) could build in the South would be an educated motherhood.” In 2010, Mary Potts, president of Auburn’s UDC Admiral Semmes Chapter No. They sponsor many UDC scholarships at colleges like Auburn University. In 1896, the UDC established the Children of the Confederacy to impart similar values to younger generations. Allen sponsored SB60, “To create the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, or other disturbance of monuments.” The bill, which protects monuments, streets and buildings honoring the Confederacy, passed 24 to 7. UDC still lobbies state legislatures on pro-Confederate issues. They moved the “Lost Cause” from cemeteries to town squares. They also wrote public school history textbooks, glorified the Ku Klux Klan, and developed archives and museums, all reflecting false history. Their influence ranged from the nursery to the schoolhouse to public spaces. They created Confederate monuments and named buildings and streets after Confederate heroes. Its name was later changed to the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), but its mission was the same: promoting “the Lost Cause,” a rewritten history of the Civil War that glorifies the enslavement of Black bodies. They do community service, preserve history, educate youth, and honor and support those who serve our nation.Ī very different organization, the National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy, was founded on September 10, 1894, by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett and Anna Davenport Raines. On October 11, 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded, and membership included any woman 18 years and older - regardless of race, religion or ethnicity - who is a descendant of a Revolutionary War patriot. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News.
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