1. See Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940 (Vintage, 1999).
2. Ibid., p. 65.
3. Ibid., p. 62.
4. Inscription at the Confederate Memorial Carving, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
5. Ibid.
6. “A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union,” 1860.
7. See Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Culture of Defeat (Picador, 2004).
8. Quoted in David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press, 2001), p. 159.
9. Thomas Nelson Page, quoted in Hale, Making Whiteness, p. 43.
10. Anne Sarah Rubin, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), p. 180.
11. Quoted in Blight, Race and Reunion, p. 106.
12. Ibid., p. 92.
13. Ibid., p. 93.
14. Ibid., p. 106.
15. Andrew Young, An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (HarperCollins Publishers, 1996), p. 104.
16. John Cummings, Why America Needs a Slavery Museum, Atlantic Documentaries, August 25, 2015.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One (Simon and Schuster, 2004), p. 86.
20. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (Harper and Brothers, 1955), p. 140.
21. A video of Myrlie Evers-Williams’s speech can be viewed here at YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR6OTry0tk (accessed October 21, 2018).
22. Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 966.