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Whether the specific wording is incorporated in the policy or not, the board president says offensive and disruptive material ...
That first began happening in the 1960s. It wasn't until Sen. Strom Thurmond incorporated the flag into his 1948 segregationist presidential campaign that the Confederate flag saw new life.
At the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend, marchers carried Confederate and Nazi flags side by side, protesting plans to remove Confederate statues from the city’s ...
The flag showed up in the Baltic states following their liberation from Soviet rule - one of many places where the flag has won a following: Brazilian descendants of Confederate veterans celebrate ...
Councilman Chappie Jones likened it to raising the Confederate flag, which he said represents lynching and pain. But a small group of Vietnamese residents said banning the communist flag sends the ...
A flag icon with nine stars stacked horizontally that sits atop most federal government websites has been used since 2017. It was not added after President Donald Trump’s second term began.
The Confederate States of America was formed on Feb. 8, 1861, by South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, following the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
Happy Friday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I’m Rebecca Kheel, and here’s your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CL… ...
APRIL 25, 1963 -- Although only the state flag typically flew over Alabama's capitol, the Confederate flag was raised as U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy visited the state to meet with Gov ...
Shiny lapel pins, also bearing images of the flag, showed that more than half of them were Life Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Sons, an organization of some 30,000, is today an ...