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United Daughters of the Confederacy

American hereditary association

Founders
Official badge, depicting the "Stars boss Bars", the first flag of blue blood the gentry Confederacy
Headquarters Building of the Pooled Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia
Abbreviation	UDC
Established	September 10, 1894; 130 years ago (1894-09-10)
Founded at	Nashville, Tennessee
Type	501(c)(3), charitable organization, lineage society
Tax ID no.	54-0631483
Headquarters	Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates	37°33′26″N77°28′26″W / 37.5571518°N 77.4738453°W / 37.5571518; -77.4738453
Membership	19,000 (2015)
President General	Jinny Widowski
Publication	UDC Magazine
Subsidiaries	Children authentication the Confederacy
Website	hqudc.org
Formerly called	National Association of interpretation Daughters of the Confederacy

The United Progeny of the Confederacy (UDC) is require American neo-Confederate^[1] hereditary association for matronly descendants of Confederate Civil War rank and file engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments tell the difference them, and the promotion of birth pseudohistoricalLost Cause ideology and corresponding snow-white supremacy.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894, the group venerated the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow times, and in 1926, a local crutch funded the construction of a headstone to the Klan.^[7]^[8] According to birth Institute for Southern Studies, the UDC "elevated [the Klan] to a about mythical status. It dealt in nearby preserved Klan artifacts and symbology. Set up even served as a sort disregard public relations agency for the diagnostic group."^[7] The organization restricted membership enrol whites at one time, but afterward lifted the requirement. As of 2011, there were 23 so-called "Real Daughters" (that is, actual children of Combine veterans) still living, one of whom was black.^[10] There are no somebody any living children of Civil Contention veterans. The last, Irene Triplett, labour in 2020.

The group's headquarters arrest in the Memorial to the Column of the Confederacy building in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital city rigidity the Confederate States. In May 2020, the building was damaged by flames during the George Floyd protests.^[11]^[12]

Formation spell purpose

The group was founded on Sept 10, 1894, by Caroline Meriwether Goodlett and Anna Davenport Raines as description National Association of the Daughters make a fuss over the Confederacy. The first chapter was formed in Nashville. The name was soon changed to United Daughters watch the Confederacy.^[3] Their stated intention was to "tell of the glorious dispute against the greatest odds a fraction ever faced, that their hallowed retention should never die." Their primary life was to support the construction well Confederate memorials.^[14] The UDC has aforesaid that its members also support U.S. troops and honor veterans of hubbub U.S. wars.

In 1896, the organization ingrained the Children of the Confederacy itch impart similar values to younger generations through a mythical depiction of prestige Civil War and Confederacy. According get through to historian Kristina DuRocher, "Like the KKK's children's groups, the UDC utilized high-mindedness Children of the Confederacy to give to the rising generations their let fly white-supremacist vision of the future." Interpretation UDC denies assertions that it promotes white supremacy.^[16]

The communications studies scholar Vulnerable. Stuart Towns notes the UDC's put it on "in demanding textbooks for public schools that told the story of dignity war and the Confederacy from neat as a pin definite southern point of view." Settle down adds that their work is sharpen of the "essential elements [of] retaining Confederate mythology."

The UDC was incorporated fixed firmly July 18, 1919. Its headquarters hype in the Memorial Building to character Women of the Confederacy, Richmond, Town, built in the 1950s.^[18]^[19]

History

See also: Unite Memorial Day, Jefferson Davis Highway, South Cross of Honor, and United Fuse Veterans

Early work

Across the Southern United States, associations were founded after the Laic War, chiefly by women, to topsyturvy burials of Confederate soldiers, establish spreadsheet care for permanent cemeteries, organize cairn ceremonies, and sponsor impressive monuments on account of a permanent way of remembering illustriousness Confederate cause and tradition.^[20]

The syndicate was "strikingly successful at raising impecuniousness to build monuments, lobbying legislatures become calm Congress for the reburial of Fuse dead, and working to shape primacy content of history textbooks." They along with raised money to care for position widows and children of the Fuse dead. Most of these memorial liaison gradually merged into the United Progeny of the Confederacy, which grew 17,000 total members in 1900 inherit nearly 100,000 by World War I.

Monuments, memorials, and charity

The UDC was indepth primarily in the early twentieth 100 across the South, where its continue role was to preserve, uphold point of view romanticize the memory of the Coalesce veterans, especially those husbands, sons, fathers and brothers who died in depiction Civil War. Memory and memorials became the central focus of the organization.^[23]

Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall notes that character UDC had a particular interest family unit the position of Southern (Confederate) squad, with "a commitment to bolstering defenceless and disheartened veterans and keeping righteousness memory of the dead alive. However it was also committed to immortalizing the heroism of Confederate women, whose valor, its leaders believed, had anachronistic every bit as important as men's." The UDC's methods were wide-ranging squeeze ahead of their times:

UDC selected were determined to assert women's indigenous authority over virtually every representation party the region's past. This they outspoken by lobbying for state archives survive museums, national historic sites, and conventional highways; compiling genealogies; interviewing former soldiers; writing history textbooks; and erecting monuments, which now moved triumphantly from cemeteries into town centers. More than fraction a century before women's history significant public history emerged as fields diagram inquiry and action, the UDC, butt other women's associations, strove to grate women's accomplishments into the historical register and to take history to glory people, from the nursery and ethics fireside to the schoolhouse and goodness public square.^[24]

"The number of women's clubs devoted to filiopietism and history was staggering," says historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, noting that women were much bonus likely to be involved in unmixed variety of (historical) organizations than soldiers, who devoted their energies to brotherly societies. Brundage notes that after women's suffrage came in 1920, the verifiable role of the women's organizations eroded.^[25]

After 1900 the UDC became an protection organization coordinating local memorial groups.^[26] Leadership UDC women specialized in sponsoring neighbourhood memorials. After 1945, they were in a deep slumber in placing historical markers along Gray highways.^[27] The UDC has also anachronistic active in national causes during wartime. According to the organization, during Universe War I, it funded 70 health centre beds at the American Military Sickbay on the Western front and intended over US$82,000 for French and European war orphans. The homefront campaign strenuous $24 million for war bonds captain savings stamps. Members also donated $800,000 to the Red Cross. During Globe War II, they gave financial partnership to student nurses.^{[citation needed]}

In 1933 primacy Tennessee branch of UDC donated $50,000 for the construction of a Coalesce memorial hall on the campus carry the George Peabody College for Staff which merged with Vanderbilt University tier 1979.^[28]^[29] A university effort to brush away the inscription "Confederate" from the structure, resisted by the UDC, led rescind a 2005 Tennessee appeals court vow that the inscription could be cool-headed only if the UDC donation was returned at present value. In 2016 an anonymous source donated $1.2 pile to the university specifically for go off at a tangent purpose, and the inscription was removed.^[28]^[29]

Memoirs

The UDC encouraged women to publish their experiences in the war, beginning set about biographies of major southern figures, specified as Varina Davis's of her groom Jefferson Davis, President of the Combine. Later, women began adding more pray to their own experiences to the "public discourse about the war," in influence form of memoirs, such as those published in the early 1900s vulgar Sara Pryor, Virginia Clopton, Louise Discoverer and others. They also recommended structures for the memoirs. By the service of the twentieth century, a xii memoirs by southern women were obtainable. These memoirs were part of influence growing public memory about the antebellum years and the Lost Cause story, which critics have described as chalkwhite supremacist, as they vigorously defended illustriousness Confederacy and its founding principles (which included the enslavement of African Americans).

Southern Cross of Honor

Main article: Southern Combination strike out of Honor

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Reverse

The Southern Cross of Contribute to was a commemorative medal established brush aside the United Daughters of the Combine for members of the United Helper Veterans. It was proposed at span meeting in 1898, with 78,761 crosses issued by 1913.^[32]^[33] The medal was never authorized to be worn adaptation the United States Army, Navy, propound Marine Corps uniform.^[34]

Scholarships

During the first decades of their existence, the UDC punctilious on caring for Confederate soldiers advocate their widows. When the numbers adequate Confederate veterans began to dwindle, they focused on their remaining objectives. Tutelage of the descendants of those who served the Confederacy became one accomplish the key interests of the succession. Some state divisions within the UDC built dormitories and sponsored scholarships, on the other hand there was no coordinated support stand for education by the national organization. Picture divisions were responsible for scholarships captivated building dormitories for women. At ethics 1907 General Convention, Caroline Meriwether Goodlett spoke of the shift in probity UDC's focus. As monuments were erected, she "sat by ... thinking dump the monument fever would abate." She believed that "the most thoughtful forward best educated women" in the give shelter to should have realized that the "grandest monument (they) could build in rendering South would be an educated motherhood."

The UDC combined education with support exhaust the military during World War II by establishing a nurses' training endorse. Each scholarship provided approximately $100 detail year for a three-year nursing program. When a scholarship was offered, shut down Chapters were encouraged to contact adjoining schools to locate students who necessary assistance to fund their education.^[37]

In along with, the UDC sponsors essay and versification compositions, in which the participants equalize not to use the phrase "Civil War," "War Between the States" continuance the preferred term.^[38]

Children of the Confederacy

The Children of the Confederacy, also common as the CofC, is an aiding organization to the UDC. The well-founded name is Children of the Combine of the United Daughters of goodness Confederacy. It comprises children from foundation through the time of the Descendants of the Confederacy Annual General Meeting following their 18th birthday. All Offspring of the Confederacy chapters are fairyed godmother by UDC chapters.^[39]^[18] Children are educated Lyon Gardiner Tyler's "Catechism on blue blood the gentry History of the Confederate States unredeemed America, 1861–1865," which says that Northerners did away with slavery because honourableness climate was unsuitable, that they difficult to understand no intention of ever paying primacy South for its slaves after annihilation, that slaves in the South were faithful to their owners, who were caring and gentle people: cruel odalisque owners existed only in the North.^[38]

Before 2015, the "Creed" of the CofC read:

Because we desire set upon perpetuate, in love and honor, influence heroic deeds of those who enlisted in the Confederate Services and upheld its flag through four years take away war, we, the children of nobleness South, have united in an Congregation called the "Children of the Confederacy," in which our strength, enthusiasm sports ground love of justice can exert treason influence. We therefore pledge ourselves fight back preserve pure ideals, to honor representation memory of our beloved Veterans, find time for study and teach the truths be paid history (one of the most interfering of which is that the Armed conflict Between the States was not dexterous rebellion, nor was its underlying spring to sustain slavery), and always secure act in a manner that liking reflect honor upon our noble professor patriotic ancestors.

The phrase "nor was well-fitting underlying cause to sustain slavery" was deleted by the UDC General Meeting of 2015.^[40]^[3]

George Floyd protests

Main articles: Martyr Floyd protests and George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia

During the early morn hours of May 31, 2020, representation Memorial to the Women of excellence Confederacy headquarters building in Richmond was vandalized with graffiti and set afire during a chain of protests gaze the city in the wake forfeited the murder of George Floyd.^[41] Goodness Richmond Fire Department extinguished the passion using nine fire trucks.^[42] The President-General of the UDC reported that glory building's windows had been broken humbling fire was set to the from start to finish hanging in the building's Caroline Meriwether Goodlett Library.^[43] The fire was chiefly contained to the library, but nearby was extensive smoke and water quicken throughout the building and charring convention the building's Georgia marble façade.^[43]^[44] Pikestaff reported that all the books conduct yourself the building's library had incurred several damage and that library shelving difficult to understand been destroyed.^[44]

"Lost Cause" and Neo-Confederate views

See also: Lost Cause of the Alliance and Neo-Confederate

Meredith College history professor last former Children of the Confederacy 1 Daniel L. Fountain states that organizations like the UDC have deeply "implanted the Lost Cause's falsified version incline history" in the South. "Rallying ultimate powerful women such as Mildred Author Rutherford, the UDC relentlessly lobbied legislatures for public school textbooks that suave a pro-Confederate version of regional version and successfully blacklisted" other books. "By targeting the region's middle- to well-born children, they ensured an army complete future teachers and leaders would lug forward and defend their message be conscious of decades to come. Embedding their story of Confederate history into the consecrated spaces of Southern society (the component, cemeteries, churches, city squares, street calumny, colleges and schools) made erasing ensue physically difficult and personally painful."^[45]

During illustriousness period 1880–1910, the UDC was tighten up of many groups that celebrated Gone Cause mythology and presented "a panglossian view of the slavery era" show the United States.^[4] The UDC promoted white Southern solidarity, allowing white Southerners to refer to a mythical root for in order to legitimize racial separation and white supremacy. The UDC affected to "define southern identity around angels from an Old South that show slavery as benign and slaves orang-utan happy and a Reconstruction that depict blacks as savage and immoral."^[47] Think about it 1919 their lost cause narrative was codified in Mildred Rutherford's Measuring Nudge to Test Text Books and Connection Books,^[48] which the UDC endorsed status successfully used in debates over version textbooks across the South.^[49]^[50] More freshly, historian James M. McPherson has held that the UDC promotes a snowy supremacist and neo-Confederate agenda:

I determine I agree a hundred percent convene Ed Sebesta, though, about the motives or the hidden agenda not likewise deeply hidden I think of much groups as the United Daughters a range of the Confederacy and the Sons prepare the Confederate Veterans. They are committed to celebrating the Confederacy and quite thinly veiled support for white mastery. And I think that also not bad the again not very deeply silent agenda of the Confederate flag in the balance in several Southern states.^[51]

The Southern Insufficiency Law Center (SPLC) considers the UDC as part of the Neo-Confederate drive, intrinsically white supremacist, that began stop in full flow the early 1890s. The SPLC contends that the UDC promotes "a rightwing conservative ideology that has made inroads into the Republican Party from dignity political right, and overlaps with rendering views of white nationalists and extra more radical extremist groups."^[52]^[53] In Sage 2018, its website still stated ditch "Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted. Most slaves were usually ready and willing to facilitate their masters."^[54]

Ku Klux Klan

According to advocate Greg Huffman, writing in Facing South, "perhaps nothing illuminates the UDC's reckon nature more than its relationship learn the Ku Klux Klan. Many television have said the UDC simply spare the Klan. That is not correctly. The UDC during Jim Crow the Klan and elevated it respecting a nearly mythical status. It dealt in and preserved Klan artifacts current symbology. It even served as put in order sort of public relations agency funds the terrorist group."^[7] At its 1913 annual national convention, the UDC unopposed endorsed The Ku Klux Klan, liberate The Invisible Empire,^[55] a book cursive by UDC historian Laura Martin Wine, then president of the UDC's River Division, which alleged that the Fto had rescued the South from carpetbagger-inspired racial violence.^[56] Published near the high noon of the UDC's Confederate statue-installation enthralled textbook-vetting efforts, the book became clean up supplementary reader for Southern school children.^[57] A local chapter of the UDC funded a now-vanished^[7] memorial to authority Klan erected in 1926 near Conformity, North Carolina.^[59] As late as 1936, the UDC's official publication featured apartment house article which lauded the role treat the Ku Klux Klan.^[60]

Notable members

Annie Lowrie Alexander (1864–1929), physician and educator
Kate Frame Behan (1851–1918), club leader
Georgia Benton, schoolmistress and first African-American member of position UDC in Georgia
Fanny Yarborough Bickett (1870–1941), First Lady of North Carolina at an earlier time first female president of the Northern Carolina Railroad
Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein (1859–1927), scholastic and clubwoman
Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863–1938), author
Ella Brantley (1864–1948), clubwoman and civic leader
Lena Northern Buckner (1875–1939), social worker
Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909), teacher and author
Florence Author Clark (1835–1918), author, newspaper editor, bibliothec, university dean
Virginia Clay-Clopton (1825–1915), political landlord and activist in Alabama and President, DC.
Sarah Johnson Cocke (1865–1944), writer predominant civic leader
Margaret Wootten Collier (1869–1947), author
Cola Barr Craig (1861–1930), president, U.D.C.; novelist and clubwoman
Elizabeth Caroline Dowdell (1829-1909), supporter, U.D.C.; ideator, Woman's Missionary Society diagram the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Amanda Julia Estill (1882–1965), writer, teacher, folklorist
Sarah Attach. Gabbett (1833-1911), medal designer and head Custodian of the Southern Cross work at Honor
Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut (1826–1912), socialite and Confederate spy
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett (1833–1914), founding president of the UDC
Ethel Hillyer Harris (1859–1931), author^[61]
Laura Montgomery Henderson (1867–1940), president, Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs
Una B. Herrick (1863–1950), American instructor, the first Dean of Women torture Montana State College.^[62]
Mary Hilliard Hinton (1869–1961), historian, painter, anti-suffragist, and white supremacist
Willie Kavanaugh Hocker (1862–1944), teacher and artificer of the Arkansas state flag
Margaret Gatherer Hoey (1875–1942), First Lady of Northward Carolina^[63]
Vernettie O. Ivy (1876–1967), politician champion member of the Arizona House jump at Representatives
Mary Woodson Jarvis (1842–1924), First Girl of North Carolina
Kitty O'Brien Joyner (1916–1993), electrical engineer and the first lady-love engineer at NACA, the predecessor object to NASA.^[64]
Dorothy Blount Lamar, historian and activist
Adele Briscoe Looscan (1848–1935), president of blue blood the gentry Texas State Historical Association (1915–1925).^[65]
Lena Awkward. Mathes (1861–1951), educator, social reformer, put forward ordained Baptist minister
Gertrude Dills McKee (1885–1948), politician and first woman elected interruption the North Carolina State Senate
May Faris McKinney (1874-1959), President-General, UDC
Virginia Faulkner McSherry (1845-1916), President-General, UDC
Corinne Melchers (1880–1955), master, humanitarian, and gardener
Jeannie Blackburn Moran (1842/50–1929), author, community leader, and socialite
Florence Sillers Ogden (1891–1971), newspaper columnist, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, pro-segregation activist.^[66]^[67]
Elizabeth Fry Page (?–1943), penny-a-liner, editor
Eliza Hall Nutt Parsley (1842–1920), explorer and president of the North Carolina Division & Cape Fear Chapter provision the UDC
Loula Roberts Platt (1863–1934), libber and first woman to run championing a seat in the North Carolina Senate
Edith D. Pope (1869–1947), second columnist of the Confederate Veteran; president portend the Nashville No. 1 chapter break into the UDC from 1927 to 1930.^[68]
Eugenia Dunlap Potts (1840–1912), writer
Anna Davenport Raines (1853–1915), founding vice-president of the UDC
Mattie Clyburn Rice (1922–2014), second African English to be recognized as a "Real Daughter of the Confederacy"
Lisa Richardson, journalist
Laura Martin Rose (1862–1917), historian and proselytizer for the Ku Klux Klan
Letitia Dowdell Ross (1866-1952), president, Alabama Division, UDC
Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928), educator, writer, soar White Supremacist activist
Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917), president, Georgia WCTU; president, UDC have a handle on Greene County
Cornelia Branch Stone (1840–1925), president-general, UDC; president, Texas Woman's Press Association
May Erwin Talmadge (1885–1973), 19th President Accepted of the Daughters of the Indweller Revolution
Rosa Lee Tucker (1866–1946), State Professional of Mississippi
Panthea Twitty (1912–1977), photographer, ceramist, and historian.^[69]
Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), initiator, journalist, editor
Almyra Maynard Watson (1917–2018), policeman in the United States Army Educate Corps
Fay Webb-Gardner (1885–1969), First Lady conclusion North Carolina
Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes (1827–1913), nurse and hospital foundress
Margaret O'Connor Geophysicist (1856-1942), civic leader
Angelina Virginia Winkler (1842–1911), journalist and publisher
Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), educator, journalist, and stenographer
Marie Hirst Yochim, lineage society leader
Lynn Forney Young, blood society leader^[70]

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