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A Confederate flag spontaneously appeared in the crowd ... Though Confederate iconography takes on different meanings in other countries, research shows it often crops up along those countries ...
all countries Arkansas had belonged to, and the fourth star above the name was added right before ratification to represent the Confederate States of America. Adopted: 1900 Florida's flag, like ...
A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol ... holder on his car and can be seen waving the battle flag in other shots. Roof's apparent embrace of the flag has energized ...
yet the Confederate "battle flag" still flies on the state capitol grounds, outraging South Carolinians and other Americans. Local politicians and leaders held a joint news conference this morning ...
Renee Montagne talks to historian John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy in ... with a bipartisan group of other elected officials yesterday to call for the flag to be removed just over ...
State leaders call for Confederate flag and symbols to be removed ... South Carolina by a white supremacist set off a chain reaction among other Southern leaders asking for symbols of the ...
And once that Act is rescinded, two-thirds would not be needed to change the locations of the flag or any other Civil War or Confederate memorial.” ...
Even so, the Confederacy lives on in the flags of other formerly Confederate Southern ... the rarity of saltires in American flags. "Many countries have saltires on their flags: Scotland, Jamaica.
Lee. Other military units followed suit, and eventually the flag — a diagonal blue cross inlaid with white stars against a red field — became the de facto battle flag of the Confederate army.
The debate over the Confederate flag has ... chapter in the old debate over the flag, which some Southerners see as part of a proud heritage, while many other segments of the culture view it ...