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March 31, 2001
Confederacy
Confederate Day Vies for Notice 
"We just want the same recognition that's given to Martin Luther King Day," said the Rev. Robert Eubanks of Summerville, a spokesman for the Heritage Coalition. "Memorial services and other activities are planned on (Confederate Memorial Day), and students and adults should be able to go." The State (SC)
Confederacy
Beyond Face Value "Many Southern notes did not feature images of slavery; this exhibit focuses on the ones that did. This collection features notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Eras. Notes were issued by various entities, including the Confederate government, state governments, merchants, and railroad companies." U.S. Civil War Center
Confederacy
Shelby Foote Interview "And of course I’ve got racism in my bones; I’m against it and I counteract it as best I can, but if I had on clean clothes and was standing on a curb waiting for somebody and a Cadillac passed and splashed mud on me, and it was all blacks in the Cadillac, I would say, “They never shouda let them up.” That’s in your bones and you can’t get rid of it, but you can counteract it, which I do." The American Enterprise
Fnord
Confederates in Black In a lily-white movement that most blacks find deeply offensive, Edgerton seems to feel quite at home. And as he dances to the tune of "Dixie" — sometimes quite literally — he helps gives the cause the appearance of legitimacy. It is a gloss that frequently racist neo-Confederate groups desperately need in order to maintain the idea that theirs is a movement that celebrates "heritage, not hate." Southern Poverty Law Center
Confederacy
Tricky Dixie: The mainstreaming of the Confederate ideology During Strom Thurmond's 1948 campaign for the presidency, his Dixiecrat supporters brandished Confederate flags and photos of Robert E. Lee. Within a couple of years, the rebel banner became, in one historian's words, "a nationwide fad, foreshadowing coonskin caps and hula hoops." Slate
March 15, 2001
Poetry
Never forget, the night "crackle, swoosh and pop./campfire glows,.." drylongso