Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Modern display of the Confederate battle flag" in English language version.
So, when did the flag explode into prominence? It was during the struggle for civil rights for black Americans, in the middle of the 20th century.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the law "will help safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-instilling effects of these abhorrent symbols."
As President Donald Trump spoke last week in Warsaw, Poland, cable news cameras panned across the raucous crowd bused in by the country's right-wing government to cheer him on...Amid the waving red-and-white Polish flags, a lone man ― over 4,000 miles from the U.S. South, from the land of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and slavery ― could be seen holding the Confederate flag.
It's notable that when Ku Klux Klan members recently rallied in South Carolina, they carried both the battle flag and the Nazi swastika. The two flags in recent years have been commonly seen together at white supremacist groups and gatherings.
The Confederate flag is coming back to the S.C. State House, at least for one day...On Tuesday, members of the S.C. Secessionist Party will raise the rebel banner on a temporary pole in front of the Gervais Street steps...The 10 a.m. ceremony will mark the three-year anniversary of the flag's permanent removal from the State House grounds.
The popularity of the Confederate battle flag today has more to do with the Civil Rights Movement than the Civil War.
The House voted Thursday to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries. The 265–159 vote would block (anyone) from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves, even on days that flag displays are permitted.
The governor said the bill "will help safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-instilling effects of these symbols.
After the war ended, the symbol became a source of Southern pride and heritage, as well as a remembrance of Confederate soldiers who died in battle. But as racism and segregation gripped the nation in the century following, it became a divisive and violent emblem of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist groups. It was also the symbol of the States' Rights Democratic Party, or "Dixiecrats," that formed in 1948 to oppose civil-rights platforms of the Democratic Party.
Purpose or general idea of the law: To prohibit the State of New York from selling or displaying symbols of hate.
. . .icon widely seen as the badge of white supremacy.
The emblem has appeared in the Capitol before. ... But Wednesday was the first time that someone had managed to bring the flag into the building as an act of insurrection, according to historians.
In 1948, the newly-formed segregationist Dixiecrat party adopted the flag as a symbol of resistance to the federal government.
The popularity of the Confederate battle flag today has more to do with the Civil Rights Movement than the Civil War.
In 1948, the newly-formed segregationist Dixiecrat party adopted the flag as a symbol of resistance to the federal government.
After the war ended, the symbol became a source of Southern pride and heritage, as well as a remembrance of Confederate soldiers who died in battle. But as racism and segregation gripped the nation in the century following, it became a divisive and violent emblem of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist groups. It was also the symbol of the States' Rights Democratic Party, or "Dixiecrats," that formed in 1948 to oppose civil-rights platforms of the Democratic Party.
So, when did the flag explode into prominence? It was during the struggle for civil rights for black Americans, in the middle of the 20th century.
The emblem has appeared in the Capitol before. ... But Wednesday was the first time that someone had managed to bring the flag into the building as an act of insurrection, according to historians.
