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Mildred Lewis Rutherford (July 16, 1851 – August 15, 1928) was a prominent white supremacist speaker and author from Athens, Georgia. She served the Lucy Cobb Institute , as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school.
Mildred Lewis Rutherford was born into a wealthy family in Athens, Georgia, on July 16, 1851. From an early age, she was shaped by pro-Southern and Confederate forces. Her family consisted of Georgia’s slave-owning elite.
20 Mei 2005 · Mildred Lewis Rutherford is best known for her Confederate memorial activities and for her books on the South. She wrote twenty-nine widely read books and pamphlets, including The South in History and Literature (1907); What the South May Claim; or, Where the South Leads (1916); King Cotton: The True History of Cotton and the Cotton Gin (1922 ...
Mildred Lewis Rutherford was born in 1851 into a prominent, large and wealthy family in Athens, Georgia, a decade before the Civil War would devastate her home state. Her parents had strong ties to the South; both were from well-known families who had settled in Virginia before the American Revolution, later moving to Georgia.
7 Ogo 2012 · Mildred Lewis Rutherford, as one of the most prominent members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, has been scantly researched in the past, however her speeches and writing had a profound impact on southern historical consciousness during the New South Period.
Mildred Lewis Rutherford taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens from 1880 to 1928, serving as principal of the school for twenty-two of those years. A prominent member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and an advocate for the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the Civil War, Rutherford also published a number of books on southern history.
The Historical Ideology of Mildred Lewis Rutherford: A Confederate Historian's New South Creed By SARAH H. CASE "PATRIOTIC MEN AND WOMEN OF THE NORTH AS WELL AS OF THE SOUTH," Mildred Lewis Rutherford wrote in 1915, "are demanding true history, and our sectional differences will disappear when we succeed in get-ting down to the truth of history."
