How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

by Clint Smith

In a speech from 2000, Lyons outlined his vision for the society he hoped the Sons of Confederate Veterans would build: “The civil rights movement I am trying to form seeks a revolution…We seek nothing more than a return to a godly, stable, tradition-based society with no ‘Northernisms’ attached, a hierarchical society, a majority European–derived country.”

“nothing more than”