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"For millions of students passing through North Carolina’s public schools, learning from textbooks that never mentioned the deadly 1898 coup d’etat in their state, it was as though that event never happened. 'I took several courses on North Carolina history throughout my middle school and high school career,' Dr. Crystal Sanders, today a history professor at Emory University, told American Experience."

~ Kirstin Butler


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American Experience · How to Cover up a CoupBy American Experience

“'And I never recall hearing about the Wilmington Insurrection.' ...

'The story of the Wilmington coup is so important for American history,' said Carol Anderson, Sanders’s academic colleague at Emory University.'"


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"In the early 20th century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), United Confederate Veterans, and Sons of Confederate Veterans banded together, installing their members on state textbook commissions, aggressively pursuing book bans, and persecuting teachers who deviated from the groups’ white supremacist positions. In 1905 the UDC president was clear about the group’s pedagogical goals. “It has ever been the cherished purpose of the Daughters of the Confederacy to secure greater educational opportunities for Confederate children, and by thorough training of their powers of mind, heart and hand, render it possible for these representatives of our Southern race to retain for that race its supremacy in its own land.”

William Lindsey :toad:

@melanie Yes, the UDC is central to this story. This was in the same period in which the UDC was erecting pro-Confederate monuments as far north as Montreal, whitewashing the history of the Confederacy, its rebellion and its defense of slavery and willingness to divide the nation to keep slavery alive.