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Judi Lynn

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Mon May 29, 2017, 05:12 PM May 2017

Old South monument backers embrace "Confederate Catechism"


Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Updated 3:17 pm, Monday, May 29, 2017


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a different history book than the rest of the nation.

In fact, they are.

A decades-old booklet called the "Confederate Catechism" lays out core beliefs of Southern heritage groups including the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sells the book and has defended rebel monuments in New Orleans and elsewhere. Some of those monuments were erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which has programs to educate children on its version of Southern history.
 
Here is a look at Confederate catechisms — what they teach, how they developed and how they are used today:

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Old-South-monument-backers-embrace-Confederate-11180259.php
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