Thank you for taking this on, for compiling information, and for attempting communication with them, Chrissy Sadoski.
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With the growth and awareness of truth, philosophical disagreements have been voiced.
Members of the UDC have reached out to me personally or commented on my posts recently.
It's disheartening that while they grill you with questions of what you know about them, they are very reluctant to answer any questions and mostly just ignore them completely.
The discussions are not productive and it's very interesting how repetitive their objections are with no reasonable explanations of anything else. I am not an unreasonable person but I will not continue endless conversations with no reciprocity to respond.
The UDC says their objectives are not being told and there is no mention of their work.
The UDC objects to any association with the KKK and any form of white supremacy.
Here's a list of what their organization does.
*Raise funds for Confederate monuments
*Sponsoring Memorial Day parades
*caring for indigent Confederate veterans, wives, widows and descendants.
*sponsoring essay contests and fellowships for southern students
*maintaining Confederate museums and relics
*maintaining Confederate cemeteries
Unfortunately, The UDC refuses to engage in factual histories. To this day their educational teachings are solely based on Confederate catechism. Their essay contests are only based on these teachings. The UDC refuses to widen their narrative to include those that they have erased or silenced with these educational objectives.
They oppose anything that upsets their traditional racial, political and industrial views.
The UDC omits, minimizes or misrepresents all troubling aspects of the Civil War.
They teach nostalgia of misremembered past while collectively forgetting the horrors of slavery.
Their propaganda campaign changed the entire narrative of the cause of the Civil War from slavery to preservation of states rights and southern ways of life.
They changed southern textbooks to represent their version of history.
The Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity, in my opinion.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy rewrote history to hide the truth and save their own ego and pride.
UDC historian from 1911 to 1916, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, was devoted to the spread of their Lost Cause Ideology and traveled the country speaking their propaganda. She pressured the southern states to teach these ideologies in public schools and to fill libraries with lost cause teachings and pro KKK literature.
Mrs. Rutherford referred to black people as "ignorant and brutal" and she insisted slaves were happy and well cared for.
Another of The UDC house historians, Laura Martin Rose, published the book "The Ku Klux Klan, the invisible empire". This book praises the work of the KKK. It was unanimously endorsed by The UDC at their General Convention, November 1913.
President of The UDC chapter in LA in 1916 was Annie Cooper Burton.
She also published a book about the KKK insisting the got a bad rap.
In 1926 The UDC erected a monument in North Carolina for the KKK.
It reads "In commemoration of the Ku Klux Klan during the reconstruction period following the war between the states."
In 1991 Walter Kennedy wrote "The south was right!" Walter Kennedy is a self-proclaimed southern nationalist and helped found the league of the south. His book is widely considered the "bible" of the neo-confederates.
As recently as August 2018, The UDC stated on their own website that "Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted. Most slaves were usually ready and willing to serve their masters."
You decide for yourself. I see passive aggressive white supremacy veiled by the of idea historic preservation.
Personally, it appalls me that our taxes still fund this ridiculous excuse for education. But, like I said, that's just my opinion.