On Monday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley ... “The Confederate flag symbolizes more than the civil war and the slavery era,” wrote James Forman Jr. a professor at Yale Law ...

After a South Carolina ... rolled the rebel flag around a pole as a sign of surrender. The submissive move was documented in historical paintings and is featured in Civil War re-enactments today ...

After the church slayings, Lyle did some research and said he discovered that more Civil War soldiers in South Carolina fought under flags with some variant of a Palmetto tree (like the state flag ...

In 1961, to honor the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, South Carolina lawmakers raised the Confederate battle flag over the State House. In 2000, it was moved to a flagpole ...

The Confederate flag "has more to do with what was ... His family was also in South Carolina during the Civil War. His great-grandfather's brother left a plantation and joined the Union army ...

The Confederate flag flying outside of South Carolina ... between a New Jersey centennial delegation and South Carolina. The National Civil War Centennial Commission meeting was to be held ...

151; -- The shooting of nine black parishioners at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina ... Civil War, told ABC News. Goldfield said the thinking behind the decision to fly ...

Federal offices are closed Thursday June 19th for Juneteenth, but in South Carolina business will continue as usual at the ...

Many respect the flag as a reminder of ancestors who died in the Civil War, noting that such feelings do not represent "hate nor is it racism. At the same time, for many others in South Carolina ...

Nikki Haley signed it into law later that day. After the Civil War, the flag was first flown over the dome of South Carolina’s Capitol in 1961 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the war.