Southern seminaries taught Reconstruction as white victimization into the late twentieth century

Evidence

Even though I was among the first generation of seminarians who received a more honest account of Southern Baptist beginnings, the critical narrative often stopped with the causes of the Civil War. Reconstruction, if it was mentioned at all, was generally represented as a time when white southerners were victimized by vengeful occupying federal forces who supported black politicians primarily as a way of humiliating their defeated enemies. Southern whites were victims who were dishonorably treated after fighting a noble war. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 28

Categorization

• XREF: The Lost Cause framing of Reconstruction echoes the plantation-slavery narratives in earlier books on French and American imperial apologies. — connects to: Academic historians led the reactionary assault on Reconstruction and Black history; The end of Reconstruction coincided with the dawn of modern racism — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 890

Broader Connections

• Academic historians led the reactionary assault on Reconstruction and Black history #exemplifies (0.85)
• The end of Reconstruction coincided with the dawn of modern racism #corroborates (0.72) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 890