Here’s an interesting tidbit from historicsullivan.com. The site is Sullivan County, Tenn.’s, website for its Department of Archives and Tourism.
It refers to Asheville resident H.K. Edgerton as a credible source of historical information regarding the history of the Confederate flag, as well as the relationships between black and white Southerners of the Civil War era. “He has worked tirelessy to expose the many myths of Civil War history and setting the record straight regarding black roles in the history of the South.” It notes that Edgerton serves as chairman of the board of advisors emeritus of the Southern Legal Resource Centerin Black Mountain.
Wow. Edgerton’s really got them fooled.
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Wow what scam artist!
HK gets paid good money to pull off this nosense.
Officicial records of the CONfederacy such as the articles of sucession and the CONfederate constitution despute and prooves that 99.99999% of this guys revsionist statements are pure lies.
Here's another link to the story "Appropriation of Cultures". It's the second story on the podcast. If you look for it later than this week you'll have to look through NPR's podcast archives of selected shorts, but you can also find the story in printed version in a collection.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911210
I echo… way to represent and educate Mr. E.
Adryana tried to listen to you link but it had been removed. Go old HK fighting the good fight — you go HK!
I thought of Mr. Edgerton this morning while I listened to a piece on WCQS' selected shorts entitled "The Appropriation of Cultures" written by Percival Everett and read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson which you can listen to here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4384472/the_appropriation_of_cultures_percival_everett/ or here: http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/shorts_radio