Dr. R. A. Gwynne Attends Final Confederate Veterans' Reunion

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Dr. R. A. Gwynne Attends Final Confederate Veterans' Reunion

Description

The presence of African Americans at reunions reinforced the Lost Cause even as late as the 1940s. Dr. R. A. Gwynne, seated center, attended the final Confederate veterans’ reunion in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1944. He would have been roughly ten years old at the end of the war.

Source

Alabama Department of Archives & History

Date

1944

Rights

Permission to publish in Searching For Black Confederates (UNC Press)

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