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James Patterson, commander of the Tennessee Division of the Sons ... continue to be issued and if he considered the Confederate battle flag to be a symbol of hate, Donnals said "the governor's ...
An East Tennessee state lawmaker took to Facebook on Wednesday to condemn Black Lives Matter, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis as “racist hate groups" and call the Confederate battle flag a ...
James Patterson, commander of the Tennessee Division of the Sons ... continue to be issued and if he considered the Confederate battle flag to be a symbol of hate, Donnals said "the governor's ...
Officials in Mississippi and Tennessee are grappling with whether to retain Old South symbols, even as South Carolina leaders are pushing to remove a free-standing Confederate battle flag that ...
Confederate soldiers never reached the Capitol during the Civil War. But the Confederate battle flag was flown by rioters in the U.S. Capitol building for the first time ever on Jan. 6.
Two reenactors unveil a veteran's headstone for Civil War solider Lt. John T. McMahan, who was killed during the Battle of ...
The state of Tennessee has seen a surge of drivers ... which is emblazoned with a Confederate battle flag. The 3,273 plates active in June, according to the Tennessean, represent a 72 percent ...
The number of Tennesseans with Confederate battle flag license plates has reached its highest point in a decade. The Tennessean cites data from the Tennessee Department of Revenue showing 3,273 of ...
The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...
When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag. As the crowd of President Trump’s supporters rioted ...
The Confederate battle flag is a vestige of an earlier age of oppression, but the defense of its presence at a statehouse or on license plates today is a threat because it so shockingly discounts ...
We spoke with historian David Goldfield, author of Still Fighting the Civil War, about the flag’s revival. The Confederate battle flag made its reappearance following the end of World War II.