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Proposal Would End Florida’s Confederate Holidays and Protections for Confederate Flag

February 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A proposal is back in the Florida Senate that would end legal holidays marking the birthdays of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, along with Confederate Memorial Day.

A Confederate Flag Is Spray-Painted on a Gym Wall At Matanzas High School

June 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 63 Comments

The graffiti on the south side of a Matanzas High School gym wall. (FCSO)

The Confederate flag graffiti, left at Matanzas High School over the weekend, stands in aberration to the more civil and conciliatory atmosphere of the last few days in the county.

Flagler County Officials Disavow Confederate Flag That Flew at Princess Place Preserve’s Caretaker Grounds

June 25, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 50 Comments

'I don’t go around advertising that flag, I don’t go around advertising nothing.' Gail Durrance said, taking down the Confederate flag she flew at the Princess Place Preserve, against a 'barn' used by county employees for their park vehicles and equipment. (© FlaglerLive)

A Confederate flag hung at the grounds of the caretakers for Flagler County’s Princess Place Preserve even as county employees came and went on the public park’s lands–until a Palm Coast resident noticed it and complained.

Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune May Replace That of Confederate General in U.S. Capitol

November 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Mary McLeod Bethune rules.

Over the objection of a senator who decried “cultural purging,” a Senate panel approved 18-1 replacing the statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall in Washington.

How One City Took Down Its Confederate Monuments: A Stealth History Lesson

August 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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After Charlottesville, Baltimore’s removal of Confederate statues in the dead of night was the city’s latest attempt to make peace with the ghosts of the Civil War. Other cities may be taking note.

Senate Panel Votes 11-0 to Remove
Confederate Flag From Official Seal

October 9, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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In the latest sign of a backlash against the symbols of the Confederate South, the official insignia would still include other non-American flags that flew over Florida.

Florida Senate Will Consider Removing Confederate Flag From Its Seal

October 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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It is the latest reflection of the persisting backlash against the presence of the Confederate flag in public spaces. Senate President Andy Gardiner and Minority Leader Arthenia Joyner pushed for the reconsideration. A committee will do so next week.

Bill Would Ban All Confederate Flags on Public Grounds as Question of “Security” Is Raised Over Ag Museum Civil War Reenactment

August 21, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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Bill McGuire, a tourist council and Palm Coast City Council member, is concerned about the Confederate flag display at an upcoming Civil War reenactment at the Agricultural Museum. He spoke as a bill was introduced in Tallahassee to ban all such displays on public grounds.

In Walton, One Confederate Flag Replaces Another as “Compromise” Is Termed a Cop-Out

July 28, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The Panhandle’s Walton County Commission today voted 4-0 to replace the Confederate battle flag with the first flag of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars, on government grounds, eliciting applause from some and ridicule from others.

Racist Graffiti in Palm Coast’s L-Section Ascribed to Stupidity as Confederate Caravan Rumbles Through Bunnell

July 21, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 71 Comments

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The racist graffiti in the L-Section was discovered Thursday and Friday, the Confederate caravan drove through Bunnell Monday, though both incidents appear to be isolated reactions rather than organized hate.

Against Protest, Walton County in Panhandle Joins Marion to Let Confederate Flag Fly For Now

July 14, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Walton County flew started flying the Confederate flag at its courthouse in 1964 in direct opposition to the Civil Rights Act, which extended rights protections to blacks.

As South Carolina Folds the Confederate Flag, Florida County Votes to Raise It Back Up

July 9, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

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The Marion County Commission voted unanimously to raise the Confederate flag again on government grounds after removing it last week, just as the South Carolina Legislature ended debate this morning ina vote to remove it from state grounds.

The Confederate Flag:
A Swastika Cross-Dressing as Heritage

June 26, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 117 Comments

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Removing the Confederate flag from public places isn’t a denial of first amendment rights. It corrects an offensive version of false history and opposes black honor to white supremacy.

When Southern Heritage Is a Lost Cause

September 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

As surely as their chosen symbols profess a sentimental attachment to an era of racist brutality, Confederate nostalgists insist that what they really pine for is the Old South of country roads, shady front porches and long, lazy afternoons at the fishing hole. Steve Robinson doesn’t buy it.

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