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OAKWOOD, Ga. (AP) -- 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 reports the flag was superimposed on images including a hanged black man and a hooded Ku Klux Klansman.

New York—The group that is seeking to build the $100 million mosque next to the Ground Zero site certainly understands the sensitivity to the American people. In a bold move to reach out to the American people, the group announced today that they will fly a Confederate Battle Flag across the top of the mosque. Spokesperson for the group, Daisy Khan, indicates that most of the opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque is coming from the southern part of the United States. “We are aware that much of our opposition to exercising our Constitutional rights to build the mosque,” said...

TAMPA - A park memorializing Confederate veterans will officially open April 25 with cannon fire, live music and re-enactors impersonating famous Southern generals. The park, near the junction of Interstates 4 and 75, gained notoriety last summer when the Sons of Confederate Veterans raised a 30-by-50-foot Confederate flag there. In October, the group replaced the first flag with a larger one. The veterans group said they raised the flag to draw attention to the 1.9-acre memorial park at its base. David McCallister, a lawyer and officer with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the park was built to relate the...

ATLANTA — In a cultural war that has pitted Old South against new, defenders of the Confederate legacy have opened a fresh front in their campaign to polish an image tarnished, they said, by people who do not respect Southern values. With the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States in 2011, efforts are under way in statehouses, small towns and counties across the South to push for proclamations or legislation promoting Confederate history.

A federal appeals court ruled that a Missouri school district had the right to suspend a student who wore a cap depicting a Confederate flag. The ruling Friday by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis said schools may restrict First Amendment rights "in certain limited circumstances." It affirms a lower court ruling from 2007. Bryce Archambo was 14 when he was suspended from Farmington High School in September 2006, after wearing a baseball cap depicting the Confederate flag with the words, "C.S.A. Rebel Pride, 1861." The district said the flag was associated with racism and feared...

TAMPA, FLA. - Chip Witte doesn't consider himself a Rebel. He doesn't hang Dixie battle flags in his living room, nor does he wear one on the back of his leather jacket. Yet when the Tampa motorcycle mechanic saw the world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurl above the intersection of I-75 and I-4 in June, he felt a jolt of solidarity with the lost cause and lost rights that he says the battle flag represents. "I think it's great that they're allowed to fly it," says Mr. Witte. [Editor's note: The original version misidentified the highway intersection.]

The controversial stars and bars of the Confederate Flag could soon find their way to Florida license plates. State Rep. Don Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, has worked with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to sponsor a bill that would allow the group to create a non-profit license plate that bears the Dixie flag. The tag would cost roughly $25 from the Department of Motor Vehicles. SCV Executive Director Ben Sewell said his organization has been successful in the past at getting the license plates in numerous states and feels they’ve met the requirements in the state of Florida to acquire the...

The Republican presidential candidates on Thursday moved to appeal to different types of conservative voters before the South Carolina primary, with Mike Huckabee using colorful language to declare the Confederate flag a states’ rights issue and Senator John McCain embracing a supply-side tax cut proposal. “You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press. “In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d...

The little known holiday is fine with some Tennesseans, but others don't think the government should still officially honor the Confederate Army General.

-- And Hitting McCain A pro-Confederate Flag third-party group is running new radio ads in South Carolina praising Mike Huckabee's pro-state's-rights stance on the flag issue -- and slamming John McCain over his repeated criticism of the controversial symbol. "Mike Huckabee's stand is a breath of fresh air," say the ads, which are paid for by the Americans for the Preservation of American Culture. "Gov. Huckabee understands that all the average guy with a Confederate Flag on his pickup truck is saying is: He's proud to be a Southerner." McCain has been dogged by the flag issue in South Carolina...

In its anti-McCain ad, an announcer states: "Mitt Romney is trying, but when it comes to bashing the Confederate flag he can't hold a candle to John McCain. McCain's been doing it - calling the flag a racist symbol - for years." Both minute-long spots go on to applaud Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, saying he is more in tune with Southern values.

Some students want the school administration to ban the Confederate battle flag outright, even if its presence is mainly limited at this point to small decals, belt buckles or cell phone screens kept by a small number of students... Senior Megan Allen said she's gotten about 300 of the school's roughly 1,500 students and about 20 teachers to sign her petition calling for school officials to ban the flag on campus,

...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.

A Confederate heritage group says its free-speech rights were violated when a landowner removed a billboard promoting Southern history near the famed Darlington Raceway. The Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to demonstrate at the State House next month and buy radio advertisements to complain about losing its billboard on U.S. 52, about two miles from the racetrack. “This is the most chilling thing I’ve seen against freedom of speech,” spokesman Don Gordon said. The Sons of Confederate Veterans bought the billboard this spring in response to remarks by a NASCAR executive about the rebel flag. The billboard featured a Confederate...

The removal of the Confederate flag from Amherst County's official seal has upset Southern heritage groups, who contend residents weren't told of the change. County officials acknowledge the image was quietly removed in August 2004 to avoid an uproar.

The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag Leon Puissegur The Confederate Battle Flag has been under the gun of groups that tend to lead people in the wrong way to its inception. These groups, which place forth, the ideas that the flag represents hate and slavery cannot produce a single document to support these ridiculous claims. In fact all the documents found show the contrary to be true. I must point out that the Confederate Battle Flag never flew as a State Flag since its sole purpose was to distinguish the two armies from each other. It has become...

Maryville bans Rebel flag at events 2005-06-14 by Bonny C. Millard of The Daily Times Staff The Rebel flag will no longer be allowed at any Maryville school system events. The Maryville Board of Education voted on first reading to ban flags, noisemakers, sirens, whistles, laser-pointers and hand-held signs Monday night during its monthly meeting. ``This would prohibit bringing in any kind of flags,'' Director of Schools Mike Dalton said. The exemption to this policy will be equipment, approved by the principal and Dalton, used by groups such as cheerleaders and the flag team. The no-flag policy eliminates the use...

Confederate flag-raising draws protests, interest Published Monday, June 6, 2005 JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Hundreds of people turned out for a Confederate memorial service yesterday held under the rebel battle flag, as others demonstrated their disapproval outside the Missouri Governor’s Mansion. The crowd at the annual ceremony at Confederate Memorial State Historic Site in Higginsville was about four times larger than organizers had expected. Site administrator Greta Marshall attributed the roughly 400-person turnout to the return of the Confederate flag. The attention "over that issue caused more people to be aware of the event," Marshall said after the ceremony, which...

What's wrong about this photo? Or if you're a true-born Southerner, what's right? While scanning through some of the up and coming movies in 2005, I ran across this intriguing title; "CSA: Confederate States of America (2005)". It's an "alternate universe" take on what would the country be like had the South won the civil war.Stars with bars:Suffice to say anything from Hollywood on this topic is sure to to bring about all sorts of controversial ideas and discussions. I was surprised that they are approaching such subject matter, and I'm more than a little interested.Some things are better left...

The battle over Southern heritage was waged Saturday as hundreds filled Elmwood Cemetery for a rally to resurrect the Confederate battle flag.The flag hasn't flown at the cemetery since the city of Charlotte removed it two weeks ago, but protestors waved dozens among the monuments and spoke from a podium draped in the flag.Organizers said the rally was the first step toward gaining the attention of city leaders, and political hopefuls used it as a platform to campaign for office.Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Madans and Doug Hanks, who's running for Patrick Cannon's at-large seat on the Charlotte City Council, spoke...

Southern Heritage Political Action Committee Press Release November 5, 2004 Primary and General Elections Results. The Southern Heritage Political Action Committee (SHPAC) is proud to announce that a total of Eighteen anti-Southern Politicians on Georgia’s “Deck of Shame” have been removed during the 2004 election cycle. Eleven before and after the primary elections and seven after the general elections. The majority of the Eighteen removed was the direct result of the SHPAC efforts. Of the five Major political targets the SHPAC selected four were defeated, a ratio of 80%. Major SHPAC Political Targets: 1. Ginger Collins, State Senator (R), District...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The confederate flag flying in Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery in uptown Charlotte should be taken down – that is a recommendation from a committee looking into the flag issue. The confederate battle flag flies above a section of the cemetery dedicated to confederate soldiers. Some were concerned about the image this created for the city. Last month, the community relations committee executive council met to review information gathered on the flag. The information included public feedback and legal research. In a draft report, the committee recommended: The current flag be taken down and placed in a glass enclosed...

Talk about a tempest in a teacup (that's had a shot of Southern Comfort poured in it). I was clicking through the Internet Movie Database, when I came across this thread, which begins with an African-American moviegoer absolutely unloading on the upcoming remake of The Dukes of Hazzard. Like all recent Hollywood big screen remakes of '70s TV shows, the finished product will of course, be somewhere between mediocre and craptacular, and quickly forgotten. But as the readers of the IMDB illustrated, adapting the Dukes presents a special challenge to its filmmakers, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription may...

originally from spofga.org but can be found on georgiaheritagecoalition.org also. Student files suit against school board The Southern Legal Resource Center News Release For additional information contact the SLRC at 828.669.5189/slrc@slrc-csa.org For immediate release Friday, December 17, 2004 Student files suit against school board In Confederate prom dress case LEXINGTON, KY – A young woman who was turned away from her high school prom because she was wearing a Confederate flag patterned evening gown will hold a press conference Monday after she files suit against the school board and officials who kept her out. Jacqueline Duty, a 2004 graduate of...

HIGHLAND -- An altercation at Octorara Area High School between a black student and a white student known to wear clothing adorned with images of the Confederate flag has prompted administrators to ban the symbol from school property. Principal Robert A Lewis Jr. sent a letter to parents earlier this month, informing them of the school's new policy. The white student is not the only pupil wearing Confederate flag paraphernalia, Lewis said in an interview Thursday, nor does he believe the ban arbitrarily infringes students' rights to freedom of expression."Whenever that freedom of expression begins to interfere with the learning...

"Howard Dean wants the white trash vote," wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer in recent mockery of the Vermonter. "That's clearly what [Dean] meant when he said he wanted the votes of 'guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.'"After Dean was savaged by Al Sharpton, who called the Confederate flag an "American swastika," Krauthammer was rhapsodic. His humiliation serves Dean right, Krauthammer chortled. He should never have pandered to Southern "yahoos" and "rebel-yelling racist redneck(s)."What is it in the wiring of these neocons that they so loathe white Southerners who cherish the monuments, men and memories of the Lost...

LORMAN, Miss. -- Alcorn State University, green and serene on a summer day, is a long way from the beaches of Mississippi, but it has become the home away from home for Jason Whitfield.Here, said the 22-year-old Gulfport native, he can be himself, the person he was before the afternoon of July 10, 2002. That was the first day of what became a 77-day protest against the Confederate Battle Flag's inclusion in a display of eight flags at the BiloxGulfport city limits on U.S. 90.Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the day he made his stand.Today, the Battle Flag...

<p>A group labeling themselves Southern patriots will descend on Shiloh National Military Park this weekend - saying they're marching for heritage, not hate.</p> <p>The group has named its demonstration The 10,000 Confederate Flags March. Organizer Steve Monk of Atlanta says the purpose of the march is to "bring credit to the Confederate cause and what Confederate soldiers died for - a better form of government."</p>

Beasley and former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes were named co-recipients of the 2003 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Both men were cited for taking stands against Confederate emblems, making them highly unpopular in their home states.

The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP on Thursday formally denounced an upcoming Civil War re-enactment. The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition. The Rev. James Piper was the chief spokesman during the meeting Thursday. About 20 people attended. "I have checked, and the NAACP is against reenactments nationwide," he said...Piper said his group is against anything that "brings disharmony" and that "disrupts social and civil peace."

No contradiction in being a Rebel and an American By IRA HARKEY Ira Harkey, now retired in Texas, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle. A letter to the Chronicle in the early '60s charged: "You are truly an integrationist and I hope you not only get a hole through your office door but through your stupid head." The writer was Trent Lott's mother. I don't flaunt any images of the Confederate battle flag on my person or chattels, but a certain Southernness still abides in me. That condition befuddles some Yankees, one of whom asked me...

Cochran still flying Confederate flag COCHRAN - A middle Georgia city plans to keep the Confederate flag flying at the municipal building -- at least for now.Cochran Mayor Charles Killebrew cast the deciding vote Thursday in a dispute about flying the flag on city-owned property.The City Council in Cochran -- which has 4,500 residents -- called the meeting after residents objected to the flag.Council members were split three-to-three on the issue of whether to take down the flag -- now padlocked in a spot near a Confederate memorial.The flag was erected last year next to a 1910 monument to Confederate...

At the beginning of the school year, Dixie Outfitters T-shirts were all the rage at Cherokee High School. Girls seemed partial to one featuring the Confederate battle flag in the shape of a rose. Boys often wore styles that discreetly but unmistakably displayed Dixie Outfitters' rebel emblem logo. But now the most popular Dixie Outfitters shirt at the school doesn't feature a flag at all. It says: ''Jesus and the Confederate Battle Flag: Banned From Our Schools But Forever in Our Hearts.'' It became an instant favorite after school officials prohibited shirts featuring the battle flag in response to complaints...

BILOXI, Miss. - Thousands of soldiers died charging behind the Confederate Battle flag during the bloodiest fighting in American history.Nearly 140 years after the Civil War, the Rebel flag flies at the center of a new war being waged on the Coast and throughout the South.Rhetoric about heritage and hatred has replaced bullets and grapeshot. There's no bloodshed in the current fight, just bitterness.For many, the Rebel flag symbolizes Southern heritage and valor. For many others, it represents slavery, racism and lynchings.Groups on both sides of the debate appear ready to fight relentlessly for their causes.Last year, pro-Rebel flag forces...

ST. PETERSBURG -- Vincent Bonnain, a lifelong construction worker, had finally found a job indoors that he liked, working as a telemarketer. Things seemed to be going well until lunchtime Wednesday, his second day on the job, when he was abruptly told he was fired.The problem: the Confederate flag tattoo on Bonnain's forearm, along with the tattooed words, "Born a rebel, die a rebel." Apparently the tattoo didn't sit well with the mortgage refinancing company he was working for."I really enjoyed my job. I told them, "I'll cover it up. I'll wear long-sleeved shirts. I'll have it removed.' They said,...