Sons of Confederate Veterans
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
Sons of Confederate Veterans representatives with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House on November 21, 1923
Title pages of The Ku Klux Klan or Invisible Empire (1914) by Laura Martin Rose.
In 2007, this 1930s-era Jefferson Davis Highway marker was transferred from the city of Vancouver to the SCV.
A plaque from the Marshall House hung in a blind arch near a corner of a different hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, until 2009.
Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light. The League of the South, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other neo-Confederate organizations continue to defend the secession of the former Confederate States.
Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans marching in Arlington National Cemetery in 2014