Mission and General Information
The Sons of Confederate Veterans describes its mission as "preserving the history and legacy of Confederate heroes, so future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern Cause".
Stephen D. Lee's 1906 charge to the SCV is widely cited by members as one of the organizing principles:
To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will submit the vindication of the cause for which we fought; To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, and the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember: It is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations.
The SCV's most well-known activities are campaigns to keep parks commemorating the Confederacy from being renamed or rededicated to non-Confederate themes. The organization uses Confederate parks for rallies. The SCV has protested against Ku Klux Klan rallies in the same parks, arguing that the KKK should not be identified with the Confederacy. However, in the past, the Klan has actively sought recruits from SCV members.
First based in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, the SCV relocated its headquarters to Columbia, Tennessee. It operates in the historic antebellum mansion, Elm Springs.
Members are predominately but not exclusively white: notable black members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans include Nelson W. Winbush, a retired educator; Major Willie Levi Casey Jr., a U.S. Army officer; and H. K. Edgerton (associate member), a former president of an NAACP chapter.
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