Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
There were only three flag designs adopted, with later, minor variants made to those designs, that served as the official national flags of the Confederate States of America and used during its existence from 1861 to 1865. Since the end of the American Civil War, personal and official use of Confederate flags, and of flags derived from these, has continued under some controversy.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A Confederate history organization has put up a flagpole in western Kentucky near Interstate 24 and plans to fly a large battle flag.
The pole is on private land in Reidland at exit 16.The Paducah Sun reported Kentucky division commander John Suttles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans said the land for a memorial park was donated by a man who had Confederate ancestors.Suttles said the park will contain, besides the flagpole, benches and a circle of bricks to represent fallen Confederate soldiers."We are doing this to honor ancestors," Suttles said. "It's the 150th anniversary of the war for Southern independence. People may have mixed feelings about this, but it is historic."McCracken County Judge-Executive Van Newberry said that doesn't mean people seeing it won't form opinions about Paducah."There are people that view that flag with disdain," Newberry said. "It's going to be seen by travelers, and we don't need that. That's unfortunate."But he said as long as the group follows county...A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a white supremacist to 40 years in prison for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.A jury earli...
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A college president in Georgia says she ordered an instructor's painting that featured a Confederate flag removed from a faculty art exhibit.The Athens Banner-Herald...
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Ken Webber still proudly flies his Confederate battle flag with the word "Redneck" emblazed across it from the CB antenna on his pickup truck. He hopes that his laws...
Ken Webber still proudly flies his Confederate battle flag with the word "Redneck" emblazed across it from the CB antenna on his pickup truck. He hopes that his laws...
A senior at a Tennessee high school got turned away from her prom when she showed up in a custom-made Confederate flag dress.Texanna Edwards, 18, of Trenton, Tenn., ...
A Georgia county's board of commissioners has voted to keep the Confederate flag flying at the local courthouse, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.While the D...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag flying from his pickup truck has enlisted the help of a c...
An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag flying from his pickup truck has enlisted the help of a conservative civil lib...
An Oregon school bus driver fired after he refused to remove a Confederate battle flag from his pickup truck has filed a federal lawsuit to get his job back.The laws...
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