Jennie Carter was an articulate social critic who wrote from her home in Nevada City during the mid-1860s through the 1870s.
Excerpts from Jennie Carter’s essays are dramatized in the following historical video short.

If you enjoyed this post check out;
Jennie Carter’s Nevada County Setting 1860s, 2nd Marriage & Obituary
Jennie Carter’s Pre-Civil War, Civil War & Reconstruction-era 1846-1870
Jennie Carter Book Review
Jennie Carter – Filming Behind-the-Scenes & Creative Partners
Nineteenth-Century Creole Snacks & Jennie Carter (Shared Tastes recipe blog)
Resources:

ACLU – Celebrate Women’s Sufferage but Don’t Whitewash the Movement’s Racism
American Historical Association – *LARGE* educator resource list addressing Confederate Monument Debate
California Press Foundation Hall of Fame – Philip Alexander Bell, The Elevator (San Francisco) Editor
Media Museum of Northern California – Philip Alexander Bell, The Elevator (San Francisco) Editor
National Geographic TV – America Inside Out with Katie Couric – season one – Confederate statue removal
The New Republic – California’s Forgotten Confederate History
Wikipedia – Jennie Carter

“Let our greatest efforts be made to educate our children, instead of accumulating treasures
for them to squander, after we have passed away.” Semper Fidelis, 1868