It wasn't put there until the 1960s - doubtful for "historical" reasons given the events of the time.
I heard it was put up to mark the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, and was only supposed to last a year, or that was the story they told themselves.
It wasn't put there until the 1960s - doubtful for "historical" reasons given the events of the time.
Historically, the folks who said the zeitgeist of the 1960s (and 1917) contained a whole lot that was bad were right. The bad includes cubic yards of Federal and state law that pretend to be about black folks' civil rights, but are in fact about a totalitarian, bureaucratic destruction of our Constitution that was carried on in black people's name, at their expense as well as that of whites and others. I see no reason to haul down that flag—which, in the context of the 1960s, rather than the 1860s, legitimately represents defiance against evil.