Why History?
Interesting story - vignette that sounds familiar from about 80 years ago. February 1961 in Montgomery, AL where the seven states who seceded gathered to create the Confederacy one hundred years earlier … the city organized a weeklong celebration. White men dressed up as confederate colonels and women as confederate belles for a parade and fair attended by fifty thousand. There was also a pageant that told the dramatic story of secession and resistance to federal power. The parade passed directly in front of Dexter Avenue Baptist, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King, Jr. The pageant included a detailed reenactment and swearing-in of Jefferson Davis, played by a local attorney. Judge Walter Jones said white people had gained “a deeper appreciation of the things the Confederacy fought for, and helped them to realize that unrestrained federal power is destroying this nation.” Another newspaper comment was “Today the South is facing many of the same problems it faced in 186...