Turning Point for the Sons of Confederate Veterans
By AAN Staff
february 10, 2003 02:29 pm
A battle is raging within the ranks of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans. Should the group stick to
maintaining gravestones and the like -- or devote itself to
fighting for the right to display Confederate symbols
everywhere from schools to statehouses?
"I think who wins will be a straw in the wind about how
the white South is interpreting its past and setting its
agenda for the future," offers UNC Professor Harry
Watson, the director of the Chapel Hill-based Center
for the Study of the American South.