Across the South, in large cities and small towns, UDC women preserved oral histories and Confederate relics; policed public school history textbooks for anti-South bias and produced their own alternatives, such as a white supremacist primer for schoolchildren entitled The Ku Klux Klan or Invisible Empire, which was written in 1914 by UDC historian-general Laura Martin Rose and subsequently adopted by the state of Mississippi as a supplemental text for public schools; placed thousands of portraits of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in public schools, where they could be displayed next to
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Elite indoctrination
