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Southern Confederacy in 1952...
Southern Confederacy in 1952...
Item # 725194
November 09, 1952
DIXIE magazine section only of The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Nov. 9, 1952
* The Southern Confederacy in the mid 20th century
The front page of this section has a color photo of a young girl with the Confederate flag behind her.
And pages 8 & 9 has a editorial by Ethel G. Holloman titled: "Corsages for the Confederacy" with a few more related photos. (see images)
Complete with 48 pages, tabloid size, nice condition.
background: Ethel G. Holloman’s 1952 editorial, "Corsages for the Confederacy," serves as a quintessential artifact of Mid-Century Southern romanticism to coincide with the Confederate Memorial Day season. In this piece, Holloman masterfully blends the domestic duties of the "Woman’s Page" with a fierce devotion to the "Lost Cause" narrative, using the delicate imagery of the floral corsage to sanitize and sentimentalize the history of the American Civil War. By framing the wearing of flowers—specifically those pinned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)—as a sacred rite of lineage, she transitioned the Confederacy from a failed political rebellion into a refined social pedigree. Her writing characterized the era not through the lens of systemic slavery or conflict, but as a "magnolia-scented" golden age of gallantry, effectively using the soft power of local journalism to reinforce white Southern identity and social hierarchy during the early stirrings of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Category: The 20th Century
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