Lost Cause Myth justifying Slavery and the Confederacy after the Civil War

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy or the Lost Cause is an American Pseudohistory myth which tries to justify the Confederacy and slavery, such as that Slavery was educational, the war was fought over tariffs, the North were looting raping war criminals which would later be called Northern Aggression, Robert E. Lee was a Confederate hero, there were Black Confederate soldiers, among other extreme claims that have no factual basis. 
== History ==
=== Reconstruction ===
After the Civil War the U.S. Government helped the South by restoring buildings, making Southern veterans swear an oath to the U.S., and giving African Americans the right to vote but the Reconstruction period ended too soon and the South started instating Jim Crow Laws.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era#
=== Ku Klux Klan ===
In 1865 six confederate veterans John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, J. Calvin Jones, John C. Lester, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klan were known for murdering African-Americans often by lynching them and either leaving them or leaving them on the side of roads, the Klan would also assassinate people like politician George W. Ashburn in 1868, black civil rights activist Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney in the 1960s among others. The Klan was later dissolved in 1872 due in large part to president Ulysses S. Grant enforcing anti-K.K.K. protocols. 
==== Jim Crow and Jim Crow Laws ====
Jim Crow was a theater persona popularized by Thomas D. Rice, Jim Crow actors often use blackface and would dance to the song "Jump Jim Crow."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_(character) Jim Crow laws were established after the Reconstruction Era the southern states to segregate African Americans by separating them from white people which was supposed to be "separate but equal" but the conditions for Africans would be worse, the segregation would only end with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.https://unusual-american-history.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_Cause_Myth_justifying_Slavery_and_the_Confederacy_after_the_Civil_War?veaction=edit
==== Confederados ====
After the Civil War many former Confederates fled to Brazil where they founded a town called Americana in the hopes of trying to start a cotton slave farm and every year the town holds a festival where the celebrate their heritage. 
==== United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) ====
The Lost Cause began to spring up after the Civil War in the South and became popular in the Economically and frustrated South and a Southern organization called the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) who became popular in the 1890s and the 1910s for funding Confederate statues and Memorials, establishing the Southern Cross of Honor in 1899 for Southern veterans, establishing the Children of the Confederacy, and donating to Confederate charities gaining the praise of the Ku Klux Klan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy#Notable_members
==== Moses Jacob Ezekiel ====
Famous Jewish sculpture Moses Jacob Ezekiel was highly praised internationally for his ornate statues across the world and he was also praised in the South not only for fighting in the Civil War but also for his statues of Stonewall Jackson and fallen soldiers,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Jacob_Ezekiel#%22Lost_Cause%22_movement he also designed a memorial in Arlington which was commissioned by the previously mentioned UDC.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)
==== Thomas Dixon Jr. ====
Thomas was a writer who predicated that a "race war" between whites and African-Americans and that African-Americans are futile and dangerous, he also wrote several books such as The Clansman, The traitor, and the Leopards spots which were widely praised by racist Southerners.
=== WW1 ===
==== The Birth of a Nation ====
The Birth of a Nation is a famous movie made in 1915 portraying the K.K.K. as heroic knights lynching a black solider named Gus for the murder of a woman during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the movie was highly praised during the 1910s-1920s for its close ups and fadeouts and was even shown at the White House by Woodrow Wilson, but as a consequence of the movie several white mobs started forming and lynching African-Americans.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation#Social_impact
==== Woodrow Wilson ====
Woodrow Wilson was born into a pro-slavery southern family, his father Joseph Wilson was a captain in the Confederate Army, after the war he became the president of Princeton university where he discouraged African American, and heavily supported the Lost Cause and Redeemer, when he was president from 1913-1921 he indorsed segregation policies which increased salaries for white workers he also would make racist jokes and call black people "Darky's".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#
==== WW1 veteran lynching's ====
name 	location 	year 	description
unknown 	Pine Bluff, Arkansas 	unknown 	An African American veteran refuses to move for a white woman and insults her resulting in the soldier's death via lynching.
Private Charles Lewis 	Tyler Station, Hickman, Kentucky	December 16, 1918 	Private Lewis was accused of robbery and a group of masked men break into the cell with a sledgehammer and he's hanged on a tree.
Wilbur Little 	Blakely, Georgia 	Spring 1919 	Wilbur refused to remove his military uniform and was hanged and his corpse burned by a mon of locals.
Bud Johnson 	Pace, Florida 	March, 12 1919 	He was accused of assaulting a white woman and he was taken by a mob and chained to a stake, burnt alive, and his skull was split open by a hatchet and was taken given as trophies.
black vet and black woman 	Pickens, Mississippi 	May 5, 1919 	One of them insulted a white woman and were hanged.
Sgt. Maj. John Green 	Birmingham, Alabama 	June 12, 1919 	John asked for change from a conductor on a segregated bus in Dozier park and was shot thrice in the head.
Robert Truett 	Louise, Mississippi 	July 15, 1919 	Robert insulted a white woman and supposedly proposed to a white woman and was hanged at 18 years old.
Clinton Briggs 	Lincoln, Arkansas 	August 3, 1919 	Insulted a white woman and move too slow out of her way and was chained and shot to death.
L.B. Reed 	Clarksdale, Mississippi 	September 10, 1919	Reed was accused of having a relationship with a white woman and was hanged from a bridge over Sunflower River.
Robert Crosky, Miles Phifer	Montgomery, Alabama 	September 28, 1919	Both were accused of assaulting white women and were shot by a mob.
Frank Livingston 	El Dorado, Arkansas 	May 21, 1919 	Was accused of murder and was kidnapped by a mob of 100 people and was burnt alive.
Lucius McCarty 	Bogalusa, Louisiana 	August 31, 1919 	Lucius was accused of assaulting a white woman and was killed by a mob and was burnt afterward.
Powell Green 	Franklin, North Carolina 	December 27, 1919 	Powell was accused of killing R.M. Brown and was tied to the back of a car and hanged from a pine tree.
Herman Arthur 	Paris, Texas 	July 6, 1920 	Herman got into a fatal shootout with a white father and son and his and his brother Ervie were staked and burnt alive.
Leroy Johnston 	Helena, Arkansas 	October 1, 1919 	Leroy was a burglar from the Harlem Hellfighters, he and his 3 brothers were taken off a train by a white mob and were shot multiple times.
== Modern Day ==
=== Neo-Confederacy ===
Neo-Confederacy is a white supremist, Christian, hate group which believes that the Confederacy is not racist and that there trying to celebrate their tradition.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confederates#Historical_revisionism
=== Gods and Generals ===
Gods and Generals is a 2003 film by Ron F. Maxwell on the Civil War which was been criticized for its offensive depiction of the relationship between slaves and their slaveowners, depicting the Confederacy as heroes and portraying the Union as thieving savages with New Orleans history youtuber Andrew Rakich better known as Atun-Shei films describing as "The most offensive Civil War movie since The Birth of a Nation."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Generals_(film)
==== Andrew Rakich ====
Andrew Rakich known as Atun-Shei Films is a New Orleans filmmaker and youtuber who makes videos on history mostly on the Civil War known for his series Checkmate Lincolnites!, a show where he plays two characters Billy Yank and Johnny Reb, Billy Yank and Johnny Reb argue over various topics such as if their were black Confederate soldiers, if General William T. Sherman was a war criminal, among other topics relating to the lost Cause.
===== Jim Crow Rock =====
In Hunters Quay, Scottish Highlands a large Glacial erratic rock was painted to look like it had blackface and had the word "Jim Crow", the rock was later repainted to look like a puffin and was changed to the Puffin Rock.