Posted on Dec 20, 2021
Pioneering Black educator's statue to replace Confederate statue at the Capitol
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Civil rights activist and Bethune-Cookman University founder Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history again.
She will be the first Black person to represent a state in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The renowned educator’s Florida-commissioned statue will be placed permanently in the Capitol in February 2022, replacing the statue of a confederate general.
Standing at 11 feet tall and weighing in at 6,000 pounds, the statue shows Bethune in a cap and gown to signify her dedication to education. It also features a stack of her own books piled next to her. A smaller bronze version will also be placed in Riverfront Park near Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard.
She will be the first Black person to represent a state in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The renowned educator’s Florida-commissioned statue will be placed permanently in the Capitol in February 2022, replacing the statue of a confederate general.
Standing at 11 feet tall and weighing in at 6,000 pounds, the statue shows Bethune in a cap and gown to signify her dedication to education. It also features a stack of her own books piled next to her. A smaller bronze version will also be placed in Riverfront Park near Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard.
Pioneering Black educator's statue to replace Confederate statue at the Capitol
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
Born in South Carolina in 1875, Bethune was one of 17 children. Her parents were formerly enslaved and the family picked cotton to make a living. Nonetheless, Bethune was committed to her education. She eventually graduated from Scotia Seminary, a Presbyterian boarding school for Black girls, in 1894.
Mary McLeod Bethune, circa 1920. Chicago History Museum / Getty Images
Next, she went north to Chicago to study at the Moody Bible Institute, with the goal of doing missionary work in Africa. At the time, she was the only Black student enrolled. There, she established Sunday schools in neglected parts of Chicago, worked with prisoners in city jails, and helped with the Pacific Garden Mission, which housed and fed hundreds of people each day.
When she sought an opportunity for mission work in Africa, the Presbyterian Board of Missions denied her request and instead sent her to Georgia, where she worked at a school for Black girls. Soon after, she married Albert Bethune, and eventually the couple and their child moved to Florida. While teaching in Palatka, Florida, she learned of the poor living and educational conditions of Black residents of Daytona Beach.
Soon, Bethune started a school in Daytona with a commitment to provide Black girls a higher quality education."
..."Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
Born in South Carolina in 1875, Bethune was one of 17 children. Her parents were formerly enslaved and the family picked cotton to make a living. Nonetheless, Bethune was committed to her education. She eventually graduated from Scotia Seminary, a Presbyterian boarding school for Black girls, in 1894.
Mary McLeod Bethune, circa 1920. Chicago History Museum / Getty Images
Next, she went north to Chicago to study at the Moody Bible Institute, with the goal of doing missionary work in Africa. At the time, she was the only Black student enrolled. There, she established Sunday schools in neglected parts of Chicago, worked with prisoners in city jails, and helped with the Pacific Garden Mission, which housed and fed hundreds of people each day.
When she sought an opportunity for mission work in Africa, the Presbyterian Board of Missions denied her request and instead sent her to Georgia, where she worked at a school for Black girls. Soon after, she married Albert Bethune, and eventually the couple and their child moved to Florida. While teaching in Palatka, Florida, she learned of the poor living and educational conditions of Black residents of Daytona Beach.
Soon, Bethune started a school in Daytona with a commitment to provide Black girls a higher quality education."
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Confederate Statues Were Built To Further A 'White Supremacist Future'
Most Confederate Monuments Weren't Built Until the Rise of Jim Crow
They largely symbolize a romanticized version of Antebellum racism, not the Civil War dead.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2017/8/18/16165160/confederate-monuments-history-charlottesville-white-supremacy
https://www.google.com/amp/http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/amp12015570/confederate-monuments/
Revisionist History:
United Daughters of the Confederacy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dixies-history-got-whitewashed
http://cwmemory.com/2017/10/25/how-southern-socialites-rewrote-civil-war-history/
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/the_south_still_lies_about_the_civil_war/
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/arts/design/museum-of-the-confederacy-and-others-depict-the-lost-cause.html
https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Lost-Cause-Perspectives-Confederate/dp/ [login to see]
Most Confederate Monuments Weren't Built Until the Rise of Jim Crow
They largely symbolize a romanticized version of Antebellum racism, not the Civil War dead.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2017/8/18/16165160/confederate-monuments-history-charlottesville-white-supremacy
https://www.google.com/amp/http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/amp12015570/confederate-monuments/
Revisionist History:
United Daughters of the Confederacy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dixies-history-got-whitewashed
http://cwmemory.com/2017/10/25/how-southern-socialites-rewrote-civil-war-history/
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/the_south_still_lies_about_the_civil_war/
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/arts/design/museum-of-the-confederacy-and-others-depict-the-lost-cause.html
https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Lost-Cause-Perspectives-Confederate/dp/ [login to see]
Confederate Statues Were Built To Further A 'White Supremacist Future'
President Trump hasn't mentioned it as he's defended the memorabilia over the past week, but historians say the statues were originally built to send a clear message to black Americans.
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CPL LaForest Gray
The reason I rebuttal and put information out is because it’s been to much revisionist history going back to slavery itself to the end of the civil war and on and on .... up to now
United Daughters of the Confederacy revisionist of the civil war....let’s have an example shall we :
“Consider Susan Pendleton Lee’s 1895 textbook, A School History of the United States, in which she declared that although abolitionists had declared slavery to be a “moral wrong,” most Southerners believed that “the evils connected with it were less than those of any other system of labor.” “Hundreds of thousands of African savages,” according to the author, “had been Christianized under its influence—the kindest relations existed between the slaves and their owners.” It should come as no surprise that in her account of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan was necessary “for protection against . . . outrages committed by misguided negroes.”
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/the_south_still_lies_about_the_civil_war/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/16/the-whole-point-of-confederate-monuments-is-to-celebrate-white-supremacy/
Or how about something more current ....
The Black and White of Racism states that :
“2. The book points out that “a fate worse than slavery” was likely had the Africans not been sold in their homeland during the slave trade years. The point is made that America was more a refuge and opportunity than most people with African ancestry realize today.
For example, following are some facts that support the point:
The history of Slavery in early America through the Civil War has been presented to the American people of today in a deceptive manner. White Slaves and Black Slave Owners and the extent of African participation in the slave trade has been excluded from most text books, as well as, historical museums and presentations.”
Published March 21, 2017.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Black_and_White_of_Racism.html?id=gCfnAQAACAAJ&hl=en
http://theblackandwhiteofracism.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhY7w2vml1wIVgUGGCh2PMgegEAMYASAAEgJB2_D_BwE
United Daughters of the Confederacy revisionist of the civil war....let’s have an example shall we :
“Consider Susan Pendleton Lee’s 1895 textbook, A School History of the United States, in which she declared that although abolitionists had declared slavery to be a “moral wrong,” most Southerners believed that “the evils connected with it were less than those of any other system of labor.” “Hundreds of thousands of African savages,” according to the author, “had been Christianized under its influence—the kindest relations existed between the slaves and their owners.” It should come as no surprise that in her account of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan was necessary “for protection against . . . outrages committed by misguided negroes.”
https://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/the_south_still_lies_about_the_civil_war/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/16/the-whole-point-of-confederate-monuments-is-to-celebrate-white-supremacy/
Or how about something more current ....
The Black and White of Racism states that :
“2. The book points out that “a fate worse than slavery” was likely had the Africans not been sold in their homeland during the slave trade years. The point is made that America was more a refuge and opportunity than most people with African ancestry realize today.
For example, following are some facts that support the point:
The history of Slavery in early America through the Civil War has been presented to the American people of today in a deceptive manner. White Slaves and Black Slave Owners and the extent of African participation in the slave trade has been excluded from most text books, as well as, historical museums and presentations.”
Published March 21, 2017.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Black_and_White_of_Racism.html?id=gCfnAQAACAAJ&hl=en
http://theblackandwhiteofracism.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhY7w2vml1wIVgUGGCh2PMgegEAMYASAAEgJB2_D_BwE
The South still lies about the Civil War
In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and churches still pretend the war wasn't about slavery
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