South Carolina’s Confederate flag removed from capitol grounds

Other Chicagoans watched the flag come down while eating breakfast at the iconic Valois Restaurant. Governor Nikki Haley said the flag will be put in its rightful place in a museum.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed a bill into law removing the Confederate flag from the State House grounds hours after the House of Representatives passed the legislation following an emotional debate on Thursday.

The Sgt. Berry Benson camp meets every third Thursday, and they’ll be discussing the flag’s removal at next week’s meeting. Reverend and civil right’s activist Jesse Jackson told FOX 46 he wishes his father was here to witness the day.

The lowering of the Confederate flag was the topic of conversation Friday as the NAACP’s 106th annual National Convention kicked off in Philadelphia. It remained there to represent official opposition to the civil rights movement.

The flag came down about three weeks after the fatal shooting of nine black worshippers by a white gunman during a Bible study session at a black church in Charleston.

The Confederate flag will be taken down from outside the South Carolina Statehouse Friday morning. They took it down – you know – we have to live with that. Obama delivered a eulogy at the funeral for state Sen. And in light of the tragic massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the nine South Carolinians who were victims of a awful racist massacre, we’re keeping all of that in our minds. Haley signed the bill with 13 pens.

“I stand with people who never thought they would see this as well”, said Todd Rutherford, a top Democratic state legislator, who called the victims martyrs. Some retailers – including Walmart, Amazon and Sears – say they will no longer sell products with images of the Confederate flag.

South Carolina rolled up the Confederate flag for the last time Friday on the statehouse grounds, after last month’s shooting spree by a white supremacist provoked a backlash against the 19th-century symbol.

It says much about South Carolina that after all these 50 years the end came so swiftly and with such little rancor.

Howell said that very confederate flag launched an economic boycott of the Palmetto State by the NAACP. “That is why that flag is coming down”.

Some supporters add that the flag is also a fun way to celebrate Southern culture.

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the military of the secessionist, pro-slavery South flew several styles of Confederate battle flags – what most Americans think of as the Confederate flag.

“In my view, this issue’s settled”.

The state had been barred from hosting NCAA pre-determined post-season competitions while the flag flew at the State House grounds in Columbia.