English and French flags with versions that better reflected the era in which country initiated its influence over coastal Alabama. Also, the Confederate battle flag was replaced with the first ...

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated ...

A Confederate flag flying outside a north Alabama courthouse has been removed and replaced with a flag that marks the state’s secession from the United States in 1861. The switching of flags ...

HEFLIN, Ala. — The old Confederate symbols were falling fast now — the statues, the names of streets, the Rebel flags flying over the Talladega Superspeedway — and in the town of Heflin ...

In the ’80s, Alabama often used the Confederate battle flag, whose public display is now the subject of intense national debate, as part of its branding, including on the covers of four of its ...

The Confederate flag is placed near a Confederate Soldier Monument on the South Carolina State House grounds in Columbia, SC. Alabama also has a Confederate monument on its Capitol grounds where ...

Jim Folsom removed the battle flag from the state Capitol." Reporter MacKenzie Bates of Alabama Public Radio notes Montgomery was named the first capital of the Confederate States of America in ...

1. On the Alabama statehouse grounds Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley called for the Confederate battle flag, which stands at the foot of a confederate memorial on statehouse grounds, to be taken down ...

Last month, dozens of news outlets shared a "bombshell" story about a cabal of neo-Confederate police officers in Dothan, Alabama ... a Confederate battle flag, the story made for effective ...

Alabama removed the Confederate battle flag from a Confederate memorial on the statehouse grounds Wednesday. Gov. Robert Bentley ordered the flag to be taken down, the Birmingham News reported.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered the four Confederate flags on the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery to be taken down Wednesday morning, NBC News has learned. Bentley's decision comes amid a ...

the Republic of Alabama and the United States. The council years ago replaced a Confederate battle flag on the seal with a Confederate national flag.