A history lesson on the Confederate flag

[struggle4progress]

Kathleen Moore's blog
7 hours ago

... In 1956, Georgia changed its flag to incorporate the Confederate flag image. That year, the state legislature also passed legislation rejecting Brown vs. the Board of Education. Scholars say the ONLY thing the legislature did that year was fight for segregation.

In 1961, South Carolina hung the Confederate Flag above its statehouse. The alleged reason: the 100th anniversary of the Civil War ... "I tried to get them to call it the `Civil War Centennial,' but they insisted on calling it the `Confederate War Centennial’” ... And then the national opening ceremony began, and a black delegate from New Jersey showed up. He was denied entrance to the segregated hotel where the national centennial commission was to meet ...

... if you design it to show that whites are the superior race, if you fight under it because blacks need “discipline,” if you hoist it while passing legislation to insist on segregation and if you wave it while celebrating the memory of the war in segregated quarters, it sure doesn’t look like a fun-loving rebel flag to me.

http://poststar.com/blogs/kathleen_moore/a-history-lesson-on-the-confederate-flag/article_378ffb47-6e54-56b0-b992-752510a406a4.html

[guillaumeb]

1. Excellent post. But where is the part about heritage

and the Dukes of Hazzard?