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To: Rebeleye
The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP

Has this NAACP chapter even checked into its own name?

9 posted on 02/26/2003 4:16:40 PM PST by John H K
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To: John H K
Truly beautiful! Wasn’t Beauregard a Civil War General? Silly Negroes.
14 posted on 02/26/2003 4:40:59 PM PST by dix (.)
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One of the largest Confederate Depots was on the property of a Carroll Jones, a black plantation owner just north of Vernon Parish where some the real battles took place.

Most of the action took place during the Red River Campaign towards the later part of the war. The Union army suffered a humiliating defeat against a force a fourth its size.
38 posted on 02/26/2003 8:07:02 PM PST by FireTrack
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Has this NAACP chapter even checked into its own name?

Beauregard Parish (county) was carved out of the 19th-century Imperial Calcasieu Parish, which comprised what are now Cameron, Calcasieu, and Beauregard Parishes, and perhaps pieces of some others. It was named, obviously, after General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who is still among Louisiana's most famous sons.

This is more spite and bloody-shirt politics, aimed at chumming up the vote next year.

In Houston, the part of Calhoun Street in downtown was renamed immediately when Mayor Lee P. Brown took office.

The high schools are having their names and team names changed, too -- such as Robert E. Lee. Imported Yankee teachers steeped in NEA liberalism are leading the charge to purge the South of references to Southern history.

42 posted on 02/26/2003 11:08:50 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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I cought that also...
Wondering if their next demand will be to rename "Beauregard" to something that does not "bring disharmony" (or) "disrupt social and civil peace."
Something like the "Evil oppressor of the nice people"-Vernon chapter.
47 posted on 02/27/2003 6:46:30 AM PST by norton
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