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"South Carolina State Senate Debate on the Confederate Flag". C-SPAN. June 23, 2015 The South Carolina State Senate convened for a special session to debate a procedural measure that would allow them to consider at a future date a bill that would remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.
On June 18, 2015, the day after a deadly church shooting was perpetrated in Charleston, South Carolina, by white supremacist Dylann Roof, whose website contained pictures of him holding the Confederate Battle Flag, many flags were flown at half-staff, including those at the South Carolina State House. The Confederate battle flag flying over the ...
South Carolina's Senate passed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol's grounds, where it has flown for five decades despite being viewed by many as a ...
There are at least 112 public spaces with Confederate monuments in the state of South Carolina. [1] The state restricted the removal of memorials and statues with the South Carolina Heritage Act (2000), which states that "no historical monument can be altered or moved without a two-thirds vote in both chambers of the state's General Assembly". [2]
This week's fatal shooting at a historic black church in Charleston has sparked a controversy over a long-held tradition in South Carolina of flying the flag of the Confederacy near the state capitol.
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.
The South Carolina sovereignty/secession flag is said to have inspired the battle flag. According to Museum of the Confederacy Director John Coski, Miles' design was inspired by one of the many "secessionist flags" flown at the South Carolina secession convention in Charleston of December 1860.
On Wednesday most state agencies in South Carolina are closed in observance of Confederate Memorial Day, and some are asking: “Why is this a thing?”