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white and blue. AFP PHOTO/MLADEN ANTONOVMLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images(MLADEN ANTONOV - AFP / Getty Images) COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Confederate flag has no place on South Carolina Statehouse ...
Brown is a professor of law at ... white participation in the numerous protests in South Carolina, and white elected officials calling for the flag’s removal. Whites were now listening.
The controversy over the flying of the Confederate flag at the South Carolina state capitol begins ... slaves marched about singing “John’s Brown Body” and carried Garrison on their shoulders.
In 1860 almost half (45.8 percent) of all white families in South Carolina held enslaved Africans. The Confederate flag represents the glorification of that history. The flag represents slavery ...
Some version of the Confederate flag has flown atop or in front of the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia ... where we are sincere about dismantling white supremacy and building toward true ...
when the design prominently incorporated the battle flag design removed from South Carolina. That was widely believed to be a protest to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education ...
Most versions currently flown at state government buildings are cast in a deep indigo blue and feature a white crescent ... official design of South Carolina’s iconic flag,” he tweeted.
Inside the State House in South Carolina ... to take down the Confederate flag. “I think it could happen very fast.” Fifty miles east, state Rep. Grady Brown, a Democrat and a great-grandson ...
I took a close look at all 50 state flags in the United States this week, and I ranked South Carolina’s flag second ... a magnolia blossom encircled by 20 white stars and topped by a gold ...
S.C., last week and the arrest of a young man espousing white supremacist views. After the killings, South Carolina officials lowered the state and U.S. flags over the Capitol building to half-staff.
The American, state and University of South Carolina flags fly above the State House ... The palmetto could pass for Charlie Brown’s pathetic Christmas tree, more than a few have commented.
South Carolina, the state in which ... to understand its relevance to the Confederate flag. For him — and his ilk — the flag is a symbol of white supremacy. He was photographed waving it.