United Daughters of the Confederacy

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United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Indicates an organization affiliated with or a person belonging to a chapter in any location in the United States of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A national organization of white women founded in 1896, the UDC’s leaders promoted “Lost Cause” campaigns to memorialize Confederates and successfully lobbied state and local governments to force educational institutions to teach pro-Confederate histories of the Civil War and slavery.

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