Download or read book Centennial in commemoration of the Civil War Mar written by Johnie Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troubled Commemoration written by Robert J. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians hoped that a formal program of activities to mark the centennial of the Civil War would both bolster American patriotism at the height of the cold war and increase tourism in the South. Almost overnight, however, the patriotic pageant that organizers envisioned was transformed into a struggle over the historical memory of the Civil War and the injustices of racism. In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of this controversial event and reveals how the broad-based public history extravaganza was derailed by its appearance during the decisive phase of the civil rights movement. Cook shows how the centennial provoked widespread alarm among many African Americans, white liberals, and cold warriors because the national commission failed to prevent southern whites from commemorating the Civil War in a racially exclusive fashion. The public outcry followed embarrassing attempts to mark secession, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the South's victory at First Manassas, and prompted backlash against the celebration, causing the emotional scars left by the war to resurface. Cook convincingly demonstrates that both segregationists and their opponents used the controversy that surrounded the commemoration to their own advantage. Southern whites initially embraced the centennial as a weapon in their fight to save racial segregation, while African Americans and liberal whites tried to transform the event into a celebration of black emancipation. Forced to quickly reorganize the commission, the Kennedy administration replaced the conservative leadership team with historians, including Allan Nevins and a young James I. Robertson, Jr., who labored to rescue the centennial by promoting a more soberly considered view of the nation's past. Though the commemoration survived, Cook illustrates that white southerners quickly lost interest in the event as it began to coincide with the years of Confederate defeat, and the original vision of celebrating America's triumph over division and strife was lost. The first comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Civil War Centennial, Troubled Commemoration masterfully depicts the episode as an essential window into the political, social, and cultural conflicts of America in the 1960s and confirms that it has much to tell us about the development of the modern South.
Download or read book The Civil War Centennial a Report to the Congress written by United States. Civil War Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reasons for the National Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War written by Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of the Civil War Centennial Commemoration in Alabama written by Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Centennial Commemoration Rochester and Monroe County October 2 8 1961 written by Joint Committee of Rochester and Monroe County on the Commemoration of the Civil War Centennial and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry County Centennial for the Commemoration of the Civil War written by Henry County (Alabama). Civil War Centennial Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troubled Commemoration written by Robert J. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Civil War Centennial, Troubled Commemoration masterfully depicts the episode as an essential window into the political, social, and cultural conflicts of America in the 1960s and confirms that it has much to tell us about the development of the modern South."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Guide for the Observance of the Centennial of the Civil War written by United States. Civil War Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Centennial Commemoration March 30 31 1963 written by Weymouth Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Program of Civil War Centennial Commemoration June 18 1961 written by Perry County Civil War Centennial Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contesting Commemoration written by Jack D. Noe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South, Jack Noe examines identity and nationalism in the post–Civil War South through the lens of commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and the Centennial of 1876. Both events presented opportunities for whites, Blacks, northerners, and southerners to reflect on their identity as Americans. The often colorful and engaging discourse surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.
Download or read book Official Program Henry County Centennial for the Commemoration of the Civil War April 20 26 1961 written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Centennial Commemoration and the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement written by Anne Kretsinger-Harries and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines rhetorical tensions between commemorations of the U.S. Civil War centennial and discourses of the "short" civil rights movement from 1961 to 1965. Using theories of public memory, I interpret public arguments, speeches, correspondence, administrative memos, commemorative rituals, and acts of resistance across Civil War commemorations and the civil rights movement. My primary argument is that civil rights activists mobilized a rhetorical strategy of co-opting the centennial moment, repurposing Civil War memories to advance their cause. Prior to the early 1960s, "public memories" of the war typically ignored the issue of slavery and the war's impact on black communities. During the early 1960s, however, civil rights activists spoke directly about the Civil War, inserting racial politics into the processes of commemoration. This action transformed the centennial from an epideictic moment into a deliberative event that forced Americans to reckon with the ugly truths of the nation's racial history and to view commemoration as an opportunity not only for celebration, but also for political action.
Download or read book The Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centennial Commemorative Observance of Columbia s Role in the Civil War written by Columbia (Pa.). Civil War Centennial Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
