Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0813026253
- ISBN-13
- 9780813026251
- Series
- Dixie's Daughters
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- New Perspectives on the Histor
- Author
- Karen L. Cox
Description
"UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I."--BOOK JACKET.
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