False Cause
Subtitle: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813943763
Subjects: White supremacy movements; Monuments, united states; United states, race relations; United states, historiography
Notes: Includes illustrations.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Rewriting the past in stone: monuments, North Carolina politics, and Jim Crow, 1890-1929; title: Inventing Confederates: creating heroes to maintain white supremacy, 1900-1951; title: The loyal deserters: Confederate pension fraud in Civil War memory, 1901-1940; title: Playing the faithful slave: pensions for ex-slaves and free people of color, 1905-1951; title: The soldiers who weren't: how loyal slaves became "Black Confederates," 1910-2018; title: Epilogue: Why the Lost Cause still needs to lose