Confederate Heritage Month!
provided by the:
Georgia Division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans
Confederate History and Heritage Month Committee

News Release for Confederate Memorial Day—Sunday April 26^th

 

Contact information: Calvin E. Johnson, Jr., Chairman of the Confederate History Month Committee for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

1064 West Mill Drive, Kennesaw, Georgia 30152

Phone: 770 428 0978 or 770 330 9792

http://confederatehistorymonth.com

 

 

Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia—Confederate Memorial Day.

 

Sunday, April 26^th, is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Mississippi.

 

The Constitution of the Confederates States of America will be exhibited from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm on Monday, April, 27, 2009, in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (on the 3rd floor of the Main Library) at the University of Georgia in Athens.

 

See details at their website: http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/speccoll.html

 

The Confederate History Month Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans encourage all Americans—Black, White, Jewish, Hispanic, Native American, Arabic, Oriental—men, women and children, to attend Confederate Memorial activities throughout Georgia and the nation and learn more about the role the Confederacy played in our nation’s history. To find a Confederate Memorial Day event near you please log on to: http://confederateheritagemonth.com

 

Confederate Memorial Day has been a legal holiday in Georgia since 1874 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and bill signed by then Governor James Smith, who also served as Confederate Colonel, Lawyer and Congressman and………….

 

for over 100 year’s the members of the Ladies Memorial Association, United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans have held annual Confederate Memorial Day services on or near April 26^th and in other states on May 10^th and June 3^rd.

 

June 3^rd is the 201^st birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his last home and Presidential Library is owned and operated by the Mississippi Division Sons of Confederate Veterans. Please log on to: www.beauvoir.org to read information about Beauvoir’s April 25^th Confederate Memorial Day Service.

 

The Georgia General Assembly recently passed a bill officially designating April as Confederate History Month that now waits for Governor Sonny Perdue’s signature. END