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Alabama Archives faces its legacy as Confederate ‘attic’

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The Christian Science Monitor

Alabama's state archives confronts its racist past

For decades, the Alabama Department of Archives and History promoted sympathetic and exclusionary interpretations of the South and the Civil War. Now it’s acknowledging the damage that promoting those interpretations did, and trying to present a more complete version of history.

4 years ago·Boston, United States

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Alabama Today

Alabama Archives faces its legacy as Confederate ‘attic’

Hundreds of memorials glorifying the Confederacy had been erected by the time Marie Bankhead Owen built what may have been the grandest: The Alabama Department of Archives and History, which cataloged a version of the past that was favored by many Southern whites and all but excluded Black people.Owen used taxpayer money to turn the department into an overstuffed Confederate attic promoting the idea that the South’s role in the Civil War was nob…

4 years ago

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