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The flag of South Carolina is a symbol of the U.S. state of South Carolina consisting of a blue field with a white palmetto tree and white crescent. Roots of this design have existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first American Revolutionary War flags. While keeping most of its design intact since its adoption, it has ...
We’re not even talking about a redesign like Minnesota’s or Maine’s. This is about ensuring South Carolina flags simply look alike. State law has left that to flag manufacturers since 1940 ...
The flag — measuring 30 feet by 20 feet and sitting atop a 120-foot pole — has been the subject of controversy since it was erected in 2022 on land owned by the Adam Washington Ballenger Sons ...
On July 6, 2015, the South Carolina Senate voted, by the required two-thirds majority, to remove the Confederate flag from display on the South Carolina State House grounds. Following 13 hours of debate and over 60 attempts to amend the bill, the vote in the South Carolina House of Representatives to remove the flag was passed by a two-thirds ...
The reraising of the flag was commemorated on the South Carolina quarter of the America the Beautiful quarters. The flag is flown by the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) to honor the ship's namesake Paul Hamilton , a South Carolinian who was a Revolutionary War soldier, the United States’ third Secretary of the Navy, and the 42nd governor of South ...
The property owner of a flagpole flying the Confederate and SC flag off I-85 appealed the Spartanburg County violation. Here's what happens next.
Brittany Ann Byuarm Newsome Bass [1] (born May 13, 1985) [2] is an American filmmaker, activist and speaker from Charlotte, North Carolina.She is best known for her act of civil disobedience on June 27, 2015, when she was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner.