Mildred Lewis Rutherford.
educator, author, historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (1851-1928)
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About Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Mildred Lewis Rutherford was a prominent white supremacist speaker, educator, and author from Athens, Georgia. She served in the Lucy Cobb Institute, as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school. Heavily involved in many organizations, she became the historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and a speech given by her for the UDC was the first by a woman to be recorded in the Congressional Record. She was a prolific writer in historical subjects and an advocate of the Lost Cause narrative. Rutherford was distinctive in dressing as a southern belle for her speeches. She held strong pro-Confederacy, proslavery views and opposed women's suffrage.
Everything about Mildred Lewis Rutherford →- Occupation
- historian, teacher, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 16, 1851, 1851, July 16, 1852
- Died
- August 15, 1928