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Texas school board starts ‘new age of understanding,’ drops Confederate song ‘Dixie’ after years of criticism

Vicky Camarillo, Corpus Christi Caller Times Comments Off on Texas school board starts ‘new age of understanding,’ drops Confederate song ‘Dixie’ after years of criticism

The song "Dixie," written for a blackface minstrel show in the 1850s, was the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy.

       
Vicky Camarillo, Corpus Christi Caller Times
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