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Confederate Flag Removed From Front of South Carolina Statehouse
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10.07.2015
South Carolina lowered the Confederate flag that has flown over the Capitol grounds since 1961 on Friday.
The end of it's 54-year presence marks a demarcating shift in political attitudes towards the battle standard of the fallen South.
Initially placed atop the Capitol dome during 1961 in protest of integration and the civil rights movement, a bipartisan effort in 2000 saw the flag moved to a 30-foot flagpole on the Statehouse grounds.
Friday morning, highway patrolmen lowered the flag in a dignified ceremony before presenting the banner to an archivist.
A bill signed by governor Nikki Haley yesterday, relegates the flag to the state's Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.
The end of it's 54-year presence marks a demarcating shift in political attitudes towards the battle standard of the fallen South.
Initially placed atop the Capitol dome during 1961 in protest of integration and the civil rights movement, a bipartisan effort in 2000 saw the flag moved to a 30-foot flagpole on the Statehouse grounds.
Friday morning, highway patrolmen lowered the flag in a dignified ceremony before presenting the banner to an archivist.
A bill signed by governor Nikki Haley yesterday, relegates the flag to the state's Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.
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