A Union Divided: South Split on U.S. Civil War Legacy #97By Claire SuddathThursday, Mar. 03, 2011From TIME MagazineVocabulary to kno be!ore you read"massacre a##ellatedis#ute #rominencese$re$ated contentiousinau$ural tractiondele$ate %n.& in'ammatory(i$il traction)n 1*+,, !ormer Con!ederate -eneral .athan Bed!ord Forrest became the /rst -rand 0i1ard o! anely !ormed or$ani1ation called the2u 2lu3 2lan. Forrest had been a sla(e trader be!ore the Ci(il 0ar4 he as also the commandin$ o5cer durin$ a battle knon as the 6Fort 7illo massacre6 in Tennessee at hich some 300 black 8nion troo#s ere killed in 1*+9. %0hether they died in combat or erekilled a!ter they surrendered is still a matter o! dispute.&.o, in honor o! the Ci(il 0ar:s 1;0th anni(ersary, the Sons o! Con!ederate Veterans %SCV& are seekin$ to #ut Forrest on a Mississi##i license #late. But the state $o(ernment o##oses it. 0hen asked to comment on the #ro#osal, Mississi##i -o(ernor ssociated 7ress, 6)t on:t become la because ) on:t si$n it.6 Members o! the Sons o! Con!ederate Veterans /re ri'es in celebration in Mont$omery, >la., on Feb. 1?, 2011, !olloin$ are@enactment o! AeBerson Ca(is: #residential inau$uration o! the Con!ederate States o! >mericaKevin Glackmeyer / APBarbour:s reaction is Dust one si$n that thin$s ha(e chan$ed since the South commemorated the Ci(il 0ar:s centennial in 1?+1. Back then, much o! the South as still segregated E and many #eo#le, includin$ Mississi##i:s then -o(ernor =oss Barnett, ere /$htin$ to kee# it that ay. State and local $o(ernments took an acti(e role in Con!ederate celebrations, usin$ them to #romote their causes. 0hen the 8.S. Ci(il 0ar Centennial Commission, a $rou# s#onsored by the !ederal $o(ernment, held its inaugural e(ent in a Charleston, S.C., hotel, Madaline 0illiams, a delegate !rom the .e Aersey le$islature, as denied entry because she as black. For this year:s anni(ersary, there is no such commission.>nd in February o! this year, hen a AeBerson Ca(is im#ersonator as sorn in on the ste#s o! the >labama State Ca#itol !or a re@enactment o! the Con!ederate States o! >merica:s 1*+1 #residential inau$uration, >labama o5cials stayed aay. Similarly, a Cecember 6Secession Ball6 held in Charleston dre #rotests and a candleli$ht vigil by the .>>C7. This year:s Ci(il 0ar anni(ersary ca#s a decade in hich Southern institutions ha(e stru$$led mi$htily ith the racial undertones o! their Con!ederate monuments. )n 2001 -eor$ia redesi$ned its state 'a$, shrinkin$the Con!ederate battle emblem that had adorned it since 1?;+. Si3 years later, it remo(ed the symbol alto$ether. The 8ni(ersity o! Mississi##i E the same school that endured riots hen Aames Meredith became the school:s /rst >!rican@>merican student in 1?+2 E ditched its mascot Colonel =ebel, a #lantation oner, in 2003. >nd last .o(ember, a !ederate appellate court u#held a Tennessee school district:s ban on Con!ederate@themed clothin$.>s much o! the South continues to distance itsel! !rom its racially di(isi(e #ast, the or$ani1ations /$htin$ to maintain the prominence o! Con!ederate symbols are #ushed !urther ri$ht o! the mainstream. .onetheless, the SCV #lans se(eral hi$hly #ublici1ed e(ents o(er the ne3t !our years, as (arious Ci(il 0arFrelated anni(ersaries come u#. The club has *90 local cha#ters across 2? states, #lus Guro#e and >ustralia. )t as !ounded in 1*?+4 as#irin$ members must #ro(e direct relation to a !ormer Con!ederate (eteran in orderto Doin. The SCV o#enly denounces the 2u 2lu3 2lan and other hate $rou#s that use the Con!ederate 'a$ as a racist symbol. Former 7resident la., church and the s#ot here =osa 7arks re!used to $i(e u# her bus seat in 1?;;. But durin$ the e(ent, there as no mention o! the South:s racial history. The SCV:s contro(ersial e(ents o!ten make the nes, but its #ers#ecti(e on the ar and its causes doesn:t $et much traction. )n Cecember, the nother commercial, also re!used by the