The song, “Dixie,” was written for a blackface minstrel show in the 1850s and was the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy. The school district adopted “Dixie” as its fight song in the ...

Headlines have shone a harsh light on terms like Dixie, squaw ... in the North before the war, this song became a wildly popular marching song for the Confederate army and became the unofficial ...

Dixie has long been considered an unofficial Confederate anthem. This view of the song is not an after-the-fact invention but ...

Dixie has long been considered an unofficial Confederate anthem. This view of the song is not an after-the-fact invention but was a commonly held view during the Civil War. As this March 1861 ...

Dixie has long been considered an unofficial Confederate anthem. This view of the song is not an after-the-fact invention but was a commonly held view during the Civil War. As this March 1861 ...

It also featured a song that had little in common with the location: “Dixie,” the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America. The song, which some see as an ode to ...

It has to do with perhaps his most iconic song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” written very early on in ... and it was Joan Baez’s version in 1971 that became the most popular, though my ...

Country-music band Dixie Chicks dropped “Dixie” from ... terms it uses — and whether they promote racism. NASCAR banned Confederate flags from its events, and the HBO Max streaming service ...

Notably, Joan Baez, a singer who performed at the March on Washington and fought for civil rights, covered “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” This song proves pro-Confederate propaganda ...

(WHNT) — A group in Tuscaloosa says the word “Dixie” should ... The group says the song then became a staple for Ku Klux Klan groups, along with the Confederate flag and “other racially ...