Pro-Confederacy Activist Killed After Alleged Confrontation

Both, who are black, have been very vocal supporters of the Confederate flag, which has a few saying the crash was foul play.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Johnny Poulos said the accident took place on Highway 6 near the Pontotoc County line around 11:20 a.m. The two were traveling west in a 2005 Ford Explorer when it left the road and the driver overcorrected and the vehicle flipped.

The vehicle’s owner and passenger in the car, Arlene Barnum, told The Associated Press on Monday that Hervey swerved and crashed after another vehicle carrying four or five young black men pulled up alongside them, yelling and looking raging. Hervey allegedly yelled something back, before losing control of the car and flipping over.

His devotion to this part of history was a controversial act of pride to many but, as said by Hervey, he was living out a mission to honor His Black ancestors who fought in the Civil War. “This is my heritage”, Hervey said.

The details of this fatal accident are currently under investigation. He was often seen often wearing the Confederate uniform and waving a Rebel flag on the Oxford square.

The Clarion Ledger reports that Hervey was a well-known character in the town of Oxford, Mississippi.

The car Hervey was driving was not decorated with Rebel propaganda of any kind that would have tipped off the attackers to their identities.

She said she had no idea whether they had been followed from Birmingham.

In a Facebook post made the day of the accident, Barnum wrote “HELP”.

The newspaper spoke with Sparky Reardon, the recently-retired dean of students at Ole Miss. “He and some of the evangelical preachers we’ve had here really know how to draw a crowd and provoke a crowd”.

Calling himself a “black redneck”, he told an AP reporter that he supported McCain because he was against social programs like affirmative action. “In this book I show how blacks in America ran away from physical bondage to one far worse – mental bondage”.

The MacAlester News-Capital is reporting that a woman named Arlene Barnham had given Hervey a ride to the rally in Birmingham, Alabama.