State leaders call for Confederate flag and symbols to be removed. — -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds there in ...

Confederate re-enactors position a gigantic Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State Capitol building on May 2, 2015 in Columbia, SC.

South Carolina made international headlines when the Confederate battle flag was permanently removed from State House grounds.

Rankin himself wore a Confederate flag necktie to serve as a constant reminder of his opposition to “beastly” integration policies. In 1954, the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v.

The new flag was never adopted by the entire Confederate Army, but in November 1861, Robert E. Lee’s newly organized Army of Northern Virginia made the flag its own. Civil Rights-Era revival ...

Shah Khokker, 21, said he likes the marker’s historic significance but thinks the Confederate flag should no longer be publicly flown. “Who won the war? The U.S. won the war,” Khokker said.

The U.S. military services have agreed unanimously to recommend barring the display of the Confederate flag on military bases and ships and in any public space, including barracks, multiple U.S ...

How the Confederate flag came to be. Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue ...