Ky. Supreme Court Justice Partners with Sons of Confederate Veterans
By JOHN NULL • 5 HOURS AGO
Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham is partnering with Murray’s Sons of Confederate Veterans camp to establish a scholarship for students of color from Calloway County and Murray high schools.
Cunningham is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Fort Hieman Camp. He says the scholarship is an attempt to rehabilitate the organization’s image ... Cunningham insists the group is focused on preserving history ...
"It's very complex," Cunningham said. "The victors write the history and, yes, slavery was definitely an issue, but the cause was states' rights. It was basically perceived by those people in the South, the seceding states, as the second war of independence and that the North had invaded the South" ...
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Here's some history for Cunningham could preserve. When Kentucky didn't join the confederates, the Confederacy attempted to take the state militarily. The Kentucky legislature then appealed to the Federal government for help repelling the confederate invasion. Kentucky stayed with the Union
