Edith Drake Pope

Edith D. Pope (1869 – 1947) was an American editor. She was the second editor of the Confederate Veteran from 1914 to 1932, and the president of the Nashville No. 1 chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1927 to 1930. She played a critical role in the promotion of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

Early life Edith Drake Pope was born in 1869 to a former slaveholding family. She grew up in Williamson County, "less than one mile" from the John Pope House in Burwood, Tennessee, built by her paternal great-grandfather. When he died in December 1913, she became its editor until her retirement in 1932. In a 1927 edition of the magazine, she refuted William Mack Lee's false claim that he was a body servant to General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War.

Pope was an active member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was the president of the Nashville No. 1 chapter from 1927 to 1930, and its recording secretary from 1930 to 1935.

Pope supported the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws. She was a proponent of the "repatriation" of African-American United States citizens to Africa, and she was nostalgic about the American Colonization Society.

Personal life and death Pope resided in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, next to Centennial Park and Vanderbilt University.

Pope died on January 27, 1947, in Burwood, Tennessee.