![]() ![]() The Confederate flag is a signpost of voter suppression to this day. ![]() White supremacists at the time did not need to appropriate the symbol it already belonged to them.” “Look no further than Charleston in 1875, where armed members of the Carolina Rifle Club of Charleston marched through town behind a Confederate flag in an effort to intimidate black voters as part of a statewide white-supremacist campaign that included voter intimidation, ballot box stuffing and terrorism. In this opinion piece, Domby, the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory , traces an unbroken line of white supremacy from the Civil War to today: It first appeared atop the South Carolina State House in 1962 in part to protest civil rights and integration, and it’s been the source of pain and controversy in the state ever since. ![]()
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