South Commemorates Davis’ confederate inauguration

**DMX7** · 02-20-2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Wearing gray wool uniforms, hoop skirts, leather jackets and business suits, several hundred men and women marched to the Alabama Statehouse on Saturday afternoon, where they delivered defiant speeches, fired heavy artillery, and swore in an amateur actor playing Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy, 150 years and one day after the event took place.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/us...s.html?_r=1&hp

I loved this part. Even the kids thought they were ing re ed.

The parade began shortly after 11 a.m., and marched to the Capitol along Dexter Avenue, past abandoned storefronts and empty government buildings and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, now called the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church after a young Martin Luther King Jr., who arrived in the 1950s and was tapped to lead a citywide bus boycott from his basement office.

Inside, a dozen fifth-grade students from Monrovia Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala., were beginning a tour. The tour guide at the church dismissed the events outside with an eye roll, but Jesse Schmitt, who arranges the visit for his students every year during Black History Month, saw it as a potential teaching moment.

“Unfortunately we haven’t gotten to the Civil War yet,” he said, though he added that his students had told him that the march was, in their words, “messed up”.