South Carolina removes Confederate flag from state capitol

The flag was then taken to the Relic Room where it was taken in by curator Alan Robinson.

Haley, who had pledged a day earlier to “bring it down with dignity”, called Friday a great day for the state in an interview with NBC’s “Today” television show.

It was also embraced by opponents of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s.

Martin believes the Confederate flag should have come down and says a closer look at history could have prevented the controversy centered on the rebel banner for the past decades.

That year a political compromise led to the flag being removed from the State House’s dome and another raised on a 30-foot flagpole at the Confederate Soldier Monument in front of the State House.

Thousands of people showed up for that transfer. The flag has been flown over several Southern cities and has also been adopted by white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Organizers didn’t give out details of what will happen Friday, but said the removal will be short, simple and dignified.

“I think it’s important that we remember them”, Lampley said.

Among the dead in the shooting spree was South Carolina State Senator Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church where the attack occurred.

Flag supporters are mad and are criticizing her heavily on social media. “That it inspired a young man to go into a church and kill nine innocent people – that’s a lie”.

“People say he was wrapped in hate, that he was a hateful person”, said Democratic Rep. Justin Bamberg.

The alleged killer, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, had been photographed brandishing both firearms and the flag, which is a symbol of the Confederacy.

“This brings joy to some people, a solemn occasion to others”, Dawson said.

Howell said that very confederate flag launched an economic boycott of the Palmetto State by the NAACP. “Because he was so quiet and so reserved but he would be happy that this flag came down”.

Patsy Eaddy, a black woman, said there was a “sense of embarrassment” of seeing the flag still flying.

The move comes three weeks after nine African Americans were murdered in their church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The massacre reignited calls to remove Confederate flags and symbols across the South and around the nation. “I like the stars and the stars and stripes on it and that’s all it is to me”, said one camper, whose flag was visible through the back window of their trailer. And so, that’s why in Florida and in many parts of the country, people have decided that the time has come for that flag not to be displayed in government buildings. “They stopped looking at their differences and started looking at their similarities”.