Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965 9780807143650

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Автор: Cook Robert J.
Название: Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965
ISBN: 9780807143650
Издательство: Louisiana State University Press
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ISBN-10: 0807143650
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 300
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 21.11.2011
Серия: Making the modern south
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations, black and white
Размер: 226 x 152 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The american civil war centennial, 1961--1965
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In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commissions charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republics history. Politicians hoped that a formal program of activities to mark the centennial of the Civil War would both bolster American patriotism at the height of the cold war and increase tourism in the South. Almost overnight, however, the patriotic pageant that organizers envisioned was transformed into a struggle over the historical memory of the Civil War and the injustices of racism. In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of this controversial event and reveals how the broad-based public history extravaganza was derailed by its appearance during the decisive phase of the civil rights movement.
Cook shows how the centennial provoked widespread alarm among many African Americans, white liberals, and cold warriors because the national commission failed to prevent southern whites from commemorating the Civil War in a racially exclusive fashion. The public outcry followed embarrassing attempts to mark secession, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the Souths victory at First Manassas, and prompted backlash against the celebration, causing the emotional scars left by the war to resurface. Cook convincingly demonstrates that both segregationists and their opponents used the controversy that surrounded the commemoration to their own advantage. Southern whites initially embraced the centennial as a weapon in their fight to save racial segregation, while African Americans and liberal whites tried to transform the event into a celebration of black emancipation.
Forced to quickly reorganize the commission, the Kennedy administration replaced the conservative leadership team with historians, including Allan Nevins and a young James I. Robertson, Jr., who labored to rescue the centennial by promoting a more soberly considered view of the nations past. Though the commemoration survived, Cook illustrates that white southerners quickly lost interest in the event as it began to coincide with the years of Confederate defeat, and the original vision of celebrating Americas triumph over division and strife was lost.
The first comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Civil War Centennial, Troubled Commemoration masterfully depicts the episode as an essential window into the political, social, and cultural conflicts of America in the 1960s and confirms that it has much to tell us about the development of the modern South.

Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965, Cook Robert J.