Confederacy---today is the aniversary of the Civil War 1865 surrender at Appomattox.

 Montgomery Alabama is remembered as the location of the "First White House of The Confederacy".

Highway signs on the Interstate lure tourists to visit by exiting, ironically, at exit 1--- "Union" Street. 

 

The confederate states voted in the Alabama capitol building's State Senate chamber to leave the U.S., sending a telegram to their soldiers in South Carolina:

There's a statue of the 1st and only confederate president at the front of the Alabama Capitol Building, which served as the confederate capitol for only three months, till the capital was moved to Richmond.

     Danville Virginia also promotes itself using confederate ties, as the last capitol of the confederacy. It's the town to which Jefferson Davis fled as the war was ending. A Washington Post opinion column in today's paper includes this:

By the late 1920s, Jim Crow had moved in, turning the mansion — the “Last Capitol of the Confederacy” — into a Whites-only public library. When Black residents protested this in 1960, the city closed the library before begrudgingly reopening it — desegregated, with tables and chairs removed. Now, neo-Confederates protest outside the museum with flags every Saturday morning; inside, visitors are greeted by a feature exhibit on Danville native and famed Black opera singer Camilla Williams, who sang the national anthem before King delivered “I Have a Dream.”

FULL STORY is HERE.