Mouments of Folly - Lectures -Pg.2

How the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy.

-W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, (1935).

Thurs. Feb. 22, 2001 - 11am

Historical Ironies of the Civil War:
Black Southerners in Gray(The Myth)
White Southerners in Blue(The Truth)

This two part lecture addresses two purportedly "neglected" historical ironies of America's Civil War. Black Southerners who supported the Confederacy and White Southerners who supported the Union. Primary source materials are employed to expose the myths underlying the largely anecdotal sudo-history of Black Southerners in Gray as opposed to the reality behind the well documented history of White Southerners in Blue. Perhaps the most over-reported Civil War historical irony of legend is that the Confederate States "lost cause" was sustained by the support of faithful southern blacks. Whereas, perhaps the most underreported true historical irony of the Civil War is that a seminal cause, for the Confederate States "lost cause", was because, southern whites were not united against the Union.

Fri. Feb. 23, 2001 - 10am

Neo-Black Conservative Servants
to the neo-Confederacy Movement

This lecture will expose and document the academic fraud behind the "propaganda of history" on the Civil War by neo-Confederate's and their neo-black conservative/confederate allies. From the Supreme Court to the halls of academia; from talk radio to the revered homage to memorials and symbols of the "lost cause", neo-black Confederate/Conservatives are proving to be loyal servants to their new masters - the neo-Confederacy movement for the second redemption of white supremacy from our nations second centennial effort at Reconstruction.