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Photographer: Unknown / Public domain
Taken: January 28, 1894
Caption: Caroline Meriwether Goodlett
Additional Description: She helped various state and local associations merge to form the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She became its founding president when the group became a national organization in 1894. The organization is best-known for erecting hundreds of memorials and monuments to the Confederacy that perpetuated the Southern "Lost Cause" myth and intimidated African-Americans.
Submitted: January 9, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p632985
File Size: 0.031 Megabytes

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