8-22-18 Policy & Standards Division Library of Congress Washington, DC 21 -4305 Dear Coll ■ ues, More ustification f❑r creatifg the WHITE SUPREMACY su ect heading mmended 8-17-18. With warmest regards, Sanford Berman 4400 Morningside Roa Edina, MN 55416 952 925-5738 WEDNESDAY August 22, 2018 ► n Racist speech inspires UNC students to topple Confederate monument By ANTONIA NO ORI FARZAN where we stand, less than the ground, according to the In 2011, Domby wrote a let- Washington Post ninety days perhaps after my Daily Tar Heel. Cheering and ter to the editor that was pub- return from Appomattox, I shouting, they began covering lished in the Daily Tar Heel, In 1913, Julian Carr, a prom- horsewhipped a Negro wench the statue with mud and dirt. quoting from Carr's speech inent industrialist and sup- until her skirts hung in shreds, Early Tuesday, the statue in hopes of adding some his- porter of the Ku Klux Klan, was because upon the streets of this was hauled away in a dump torical context to the debate. invited to speak at the unveil- quiet village she had publicly truck Activists picked it tip and ran ing of a statue of a Confeder- insulted and maligned a South- In recent yeais, Carr's with it, he said, making the rac- ate soldier on the campus of ern lady, and then rushed for speech has been a galvanizing ist language in the 1913 address the University of North Caro- protection to these University force for activists demanding a major issue in the campaign lina at Chapel Hill. It had been buildings where was stationed the statue's removal. But it was to remove the statue. placed there by the Daughters a garrison of 100 Federal sol- largely forgotten until 2009, Though Domby said he has of the Confederacy. diers. I performed the pleas- when Adam Domby, then a largely stayed to the sidelines Carr's lengthy address ing duty in the immediate pres- graduate student in history, while UNC debates whether made clear the symbolism of ence of the entire garrison, and came across it in the univer- to remove the statue, he's also the statue. First, he credited for 30 nights afterwards slept sity's archives. heard from people' who said Confederate soldiers with s av- with a double-barrel shotgun JULIA WALL • News & Observer via Associated Press Now an assistant profes- that reading Carr's speech ing "the very life of the Anglo under my head." Protesters covered the "Silent Sam" statue with mud and dirt sor of history at the College forced them to truly under- Saxon race in the South," add- On Monday night, when the early Tuesday after they pulled it down in Chapel Hill, N.C. of Charleston and the author stand what the monument ing, "today, as a consequence statue that he had dedicated of a forthcoming book titled means. the purest strain of the Anglo was pulled from its pedestal ink and her own blood. Little, without white supremacy." "The False Cause: Fraud, Fab- "There's a difference Saxon is to be found in the by a crowd ofprotesters, Carr's a graduate student in history, Another listed victims of rication, and White Suprem- between history and celebra- 13 Southern States — Praise boastful reference to brutally faces charges of defacing a racial violence, beginning acy in Confederate Memory," tion," he said. "It's not like God." beating a black woman wasn't public monument, according with "Unnamed Black woman Domby said Monday night we're going to stop teaching Then, he went on to tell a far from mind. The rally began to the Daily Tar Heel. beaten by Julian Carr." that the speech's blatant cel- the Civil War just because we personal story. as a demonstration of solidar- Early Monday evening, Hours later, after darkness ebration of white supremacy don't have this monument." "I trust I may be pardoned ity with Maya Little, who was student activists covered the fell, those banners ended up is noteworthy. He added: "I can teach them for one allusion, howbeit it is arrested in April after reading statue — now known as "Silent providing cover for protest- "Carr made it explicitly in class about Jim Crow, but I rather personal," Carr said. aloud from Carr's speech and Sam" — with gray fabric ban- ers. They tied ropes around clear that this was about the need them to feel comfortable "One hundred yards from covering the statue with red ners. One read, "For a world the statue and toppled it to use of violence," he said. walking to my class." 8-17-18 Policy & Standards Division Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4305 Dear Colleagues, Having lately read Ta-Nehisi Coates' We were eight years in power: an American tragedy (2017), I can confidently declare that it's overarching theme is "White supremacy." Based an that conclusion plus the enclosed documentation, including numerous assignment candidate citations, I recommend establishing a subject heading for WHITE SUPREMACY SN Here are entered materials on a doctrine espousing the cultural, political, and racial superiority of White people, as well as the policies that ensure the subordination of people of color to Whites. UF Supremacy, White White domination White hegemony NT Apartheid White privilege /recommended 10-10-157 White supremacy move nationa BT Racism ith best Sanford Be an 4400 Morningside oad Edina, MN 55416 952 925-5738 white supremacy. A doctrine espousing the cultural, political, and "racial" superior- ity of white 'people over nonwhite people; also the policies that ensure the subordination of nonwhite to white people, and the social or legal enforce- ment of separation between the races. After the Civil War, southern policy that sought to maintain the political, eco- nomic, and social supremacy of white people over African Americans was known as white supremacy. Today, those identified as white supremacists not only hold racist views of African Americans; they are often antis emitic and nativist andgovern- in many instances anti-big ment. Some also have ties to the militia movement. The meaning, or value, of the term 1 white supremacy varies greatly depend- ing on the speaker. For example, in the Black Power movement, it refers to the 1 oppressiveness of white domination (Malcolm X referred to the need for black people to liberate themselves from the "bonds of white supremacy"). For ;1 someone in the white supremacy 'move- d ment it is something to foster. In the Encyclopaadic 1 is 1960s, when integration was a major le- gal issue, some white people voiced their opposition to integration with slogans Dictionary of Ethnic Bias promoting white supremacy. Racist white groups often deny that they are white supremacists, accepting only the in the United States tem' separatist. White supremacist groups have recently been known col- lectively as the "white-right movement." "The white supremacist... was found guilty of murdering Medgar Evers more than three decades ago and immediately Philip H. Herbst sentenced to life imprisonment" (Char- lotte Observer, 6 February 1994, 1). See also FOURTEEN WORDS, PROMAJOR- ITY, WHITE POWER STRUCTURE, WHITE SLAVE MASTER. INTERCULTURAL PRESS INC. WIKIPEDIA White supremacy White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races, and that therefore, white people should be dominant over other races. White supremacy has roots in scientific racism, and it often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races as well as Jews. The term is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical or institutional domination by white people (as evidenced by historical and contemporary sociopolitical structures such as the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws in the United States, and apartheid in South Africa) .111[21 Different forms of white supremacism put forth different conceptions of who is considered white, and different groups of white supremacists identify various racial and cultural groups as their primary enemy.m In academic usage, particularly in usage which draws on critical race theory, the term "white supremacy" can also refer to a political or socioeconomic system where white people enjoy a structural advantage (privilege) over other ethnic groups, on both a collective and individual level. Contents History of white supremacy United States Germany South Africa Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Russia Academic use of the term ideologies and movements See also References External links History of white supremacy White supremacy has ideological foundations that date back to 17th-century scientific racism, the predominant paradigm of human variation that helped shape international relations and racial policy from the latter part of the Age of Enlightenment until the late loth century (marked by decolonization and the abolition of apartheid in South Africa in 1991, followedby that country's first multiracial elections in 1994). United States White supremacy was dominant in the United States both before and after the American Civil War, and it persisted for decades after the Reconstruction. Era.(41 In the antebellum Soutb, this included the holding of African Americans in chattel slavery, with four million of them denied freedom (s1 The outbreak of the Civil War saw the desire to uphold white supremacy being cited as a cause for state secession(61 and the formation of the Confederate States of America.r/ In an editorial about Native Americans in 1890, author L. Frank Baum wrote: "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.41 In some parts of the United States, many people who were considered non-white were disenfranchised, barred from government office, and prevented from holding most government jobs well into the second half of the loth century.