This time around I would like to have you focus on either

1. Whether the film shows any persistence in the images of cavalier, yeoman, and cracker through the characters presented, and in what ways these images may have become modified. OR

2. Ways in which the image of African Americans changed since Birth of a Nation and/or Gone with the Wind.

For Tuesday, April 10,

READ:, in Major Problems,

Chapter 7: Southern Religion and the Lost Cause, pp. 187-213

(Skip, for now, "Redeeming the South" by Paul Harvey
Read Document 5 and the essay by Elizabeth Turner together.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an active organization. Its web page is found at

http://www.hqudc.org/ Other materials on the UDC will be posted on the Class Web Page as soon as I can get to it.

For a speech by June Murray Wells, President General, see http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/udctalk.htm

A website dedicated to fighting "Neo-Confederacy" can be found at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/