The proclaimed purpose of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is 'to encourage the preservation of history, perpetuate the hallowed memories of brave men, to assist in the observance of Confederate Memorial Day, to aid and support all members, and to perpetuate the record of the services of every Southern soldier'. As of September 2023, the SCV's website says, 'The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American Revolution.' : 218 One of its central tenets is that the Civil War was fought over states' rights and not over slavery. That ideology or mythology told the story of 'faithful slaves and a virtuous South oppressed by Northern tyrants'. Like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the SCV has promoted the ideology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, a deliberate distortion of the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction : 220 : 602 : 16 inextricably linked to White supremacy. SCV has responded with its coordinated display of larger and more prominent public displays of the battle flag, some in directly defiant counter-protest. In recent decades, governors, legislators, courts, corporations, and anti-racism activists have emphasized the increasingly controversial public display of Confederate symbols-especially after the 2014 Ferguson unrest, the 2015 Charleston church shooting, and the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Truman, former senators Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Absalom Willis Robertson, political commentator Pat Buchanan, and actor Clint Eastwood. Notable members of the organization include former President Harry S. Its headquarters is at Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee. The SCV was founded on July 1, 1896, in Richmond, Virginia, by R. The Sons of Confederate Veterans ( SCV) is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers : 6–9 that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.

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