This blog grew out of my "Down Da Road I Go Blog," which was originally to be about stuff I was interested in, music and what I was doing. There was so much history and Civil War entries, I spun two more off. Starting Jan. 1, 2012, I will be spinning a Naval blog off this one called "Running the Blockade."
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Black Group Disrupts Confederate Memorial Service in Chicago-- Part 1
From the April 23, 2018, Chicago Sun Rimes "Confederate memorial on South Side sparks protest" Mitch Dudek.
A Sons of Confederate Veterans memorial service at a mass grave of thousands of Confederate soldiers who died in a Chicago prison during the war was disrupted Saturday when 50 mostly-black protesters showed up to mark the nearby grave of Civil Rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells. They used loudspeakers to drown out the Confederate service claiming that the service just was more white supremacists.
The SCV Camp Douglas (Camp 516) group, so named for the Chicago prison (sometimes called the North's Andersonville) in which anywhere between 4,500 and 6,000 Confederates died under unbelievably harsh conditions, has held memorial observations at the site for almost twenty years and the other group had never shown up in that time.
Seems like quite a coincidence, especially since neither Ida B. Wells' birth or death were on April 22. Someone was just wanting to provoke a confrontation.
Coincidence, I Think Not. --Old Secesh
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