Sons of Confederate Veterans

Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Abbreviation	SCV
Established	July 1, 1896
Founder	R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1,; Confederate Veterans
Founded at	Richmond, Virginia
Type	nonprofit
Tax ID no.	61-1522953
Legal status	501(c)(3)
Headquarters	Elm Springs,; Columbia, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°35′05″N 87°01′53″W / 35.584750°N 87.031250°W
Area served	Worldwide
Membership (2019)	c. 30,000
Commander-in-Chief	Jason Boshers
Lieutenant Commander-in-Chief	Donnie Kennedy
Adjutant-in-Chief	Dan McCaskill
Board of directors	General Executive Council
Key people	Adam Southern; Executive Director;
Publication	Confederate Veteran
Website	scv.org
Formerly called	United Sons of Confederate Veterans

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate^[3] nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers^[2]^: 6–9 that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.

The SCV was founded on July 1, 1896, in Richmond, Virginia, by R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1 of the Confederate Veterans.^[1]^[4] Its headquarters is at Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.^[2]^: 29

In recent decades, governors, legislators, courts, corporations, and anti-racism activists have emphasized the increasingly controversial public display of Confederate symbols—especially after the 2014 Ferguson unrest, the 2015 Charleston church shooting, and the 2020 murder of George Floyd. SCV has responded with its coordinated display of larger and more prominent public displays of the battle flag, some in directly defiant counter-protest.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hopkins, Walter Lee, ed. (1926). Year Book and Minutes of the Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the City of Birmingham, Ala., May 18–21, 1926. Richmond, Va.: Dudley Printing Co. p. 104. LCCN 2005204063. OCLC 11733530 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sons of Confederate Veterans Constitution (revised and adopted at the 121st Annual Reunion, Richardson, Texas, July 13th to 17th, 2016). Columbia, Tenn.: Sons of Confederate Veterans. 2016.
^ Jason Wilson (June 28, 2021). "Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians". The Guardian. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
^ Shaw, Lynn; Massey, James Troy, eds. (1997). Sons of Confederate Veterans: Our First 100 Years. Vol. I (Centennial ed.). Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 1-56311-285-X. LCCN 96-61911. OCLC 36981188.

[Hopkins1926-1] Hopkins, Walter Lee, ed. (1926). Year Book and Minutes of the Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the City of Birmingham, Ala., May 18–21, 1926. Richmond, Va.: Dudley Printing Co. p. 104. LCCN 2005204063. OCLC 11733530 – via Internet Archive.

[SCV_121st-2] Sons of Confederate Veterans Constitution (revised and adopted at the 121st Annual Reunion, Richardson, Texas, July 13th to 17th, 2016). Columbia, Tenn.: Sons of Confederate Veterans. 2016.

[Guardian2021-3] Jason Wilson (June 28, 2021). "Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians". The Guardian. Retrieved June 28, 2021.

[Shaw1997-4] Shaw, Lynn; Massey, James Troy, eds. (1997). Sons of Confederate Veterans: Our First 100 Years. Vol. I (Centennial ed.). Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 1-56311-285-X. LCCN 96-61911. OCLC 36981188.

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