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The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate [1] hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
The Confederate Memorial was finally complete in November 1913, and shipped to the United States via a Hamburg America ocean liner in early 1914. [114] It was sent by barge up Potomac River and arrived at the Washington Navy Yard on January 10, 1914. [116] The Confederate Memorial consisted of a number of pieces which required assembly.
Lewis’ statue stands at the former site of an obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A crowd was on hand at a city park in Georgia Saturday to ...
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy, also known as the U.D.C. Memorial Building, is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia, that serves as the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [2]
The foundation and base of the monument, including a sealed box containing memorabilia, were installed on May 31, 1911, [2] and on June 3, 1911, a dedication ceremony for the monument took place. The ceremony was attended by both Union and Confederate veterans. [1] It was reportedly the first monument of its type in East Tennessee. [2]
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the Richmond-based women's group that helped erect many of the country's Confederate monuments — is on its ...