Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men In Gray
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Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men
Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men In Gray
Documentary film by Stan Armstrong, a UNLV graduate who majored in communications, is the first to admit that the film may make some people just as itchy as he was when he first considered wearing that gray coat. The idea of black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy is a hotly debated subject. Rarely is it mentioned in mainstream history books, and many blacks and historians are adamant that it never happened.
The documentary also arrives in the middle of the ongoing and rancorous divide between black leaders, lawmakers, historians and Southerners over the display of the Confederate battle flag at state buildings in the South.
But to Armstrong, the denial of black Confederates only says "Americans really don't know enough about our history."
"The Civil War is probably one of the most misunderstood pieces of American history," Armstrong said. "The war is more complex than what people see. I think that if most black people look, they will find that they are sons of Confederate veterans."
Documentary film by Stan Armstrong, a UNLV graduate who majored in communications, is the first to admit that the film may make some people just as itchy as he was when he first considered wearing that gray coat. The idea of black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy is a hotly debated subject. Rarely is it mentioned in mainstream history books, and many blacks and historians are adamant that it never happened.
The documentary also arrives in the middle of the ongoing and rancorous divide between black leaders, lawmakers, historians and Southerners over the display of the Confederate battle flag at state buildings in the South.
But to Armstrong, the denial of black Confederates only says "Americans really don't know enough about our history."
"The Civil War is probably one of the most misunderstood pieces of American history," Armstrong said. "The war is more complex than what people see. I think that if most black people look, they will find that they are sons of Confederate veterans."
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