Despite an appeal last month from the Northern Orange NAACP chapter, the North Carolina school board has voted not to ban the Confederate flag from school grounds. Although parents complained about the presence of a Confederate flag they saw at their children’s school, the board stressed the importance of programmatic rather than banning a symbol. North […]
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There is a ton of controversy surrounding anything to do with the Confederate flag or the Civil War in general. People want to distance themselves from history because they find it shameful. It embarrasses them. This church is trying to do that by cutting ties with groups which want to honor it. They are trying
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Orange County schools will not move to ban the confederate flag. There have been a lot of complaints over the last few months from people that do not like the flag. The school board does not see why banning the flag would actually change anything. There are groups that really want to get rid of
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There is a lot of controversy around confederate symbols and monuments. There was a vote in Charlottesville to decide if a monument of Robert. E Lee should be removed from where it is. There is a lot of fear and ego involved in this stuff. There are people that want to keep the history as
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Despite two pleas from the local NAACP, The Orange County School Board of Education in Hillsborough has decided not to ban the confederate flag from school property. This is despite that fact that many parents and students are worried the flag, viewed as a racist symbol, can incite violence. The board has established an equity
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County Executive Ike Leggett’s office has announced that Rockville’s Confederate soldier statue is on the move. Currently situated next to the Old Red Brick Courthouse, its new home will be on private property at Dickerson’s White’s Ferry. United Daughters of the Confederacy donated the 20-foot statue to the county in 1913 as a way to
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History lessons on the American Civil War tend to focus on its depressing aspects: a divided country, rampant gangrene, and Ken Burns appear prominently in most classes. However, despite schedules packed with receiving shoddy medical care and standing still for minutes on end to have their photos taken, some Confederate soldiers found the time to
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans have scheduled a rally this Saturday at noon in Woodland Park in Shawnee, OK. They expect hundreds of Confederate flags to be flown at the rally but a spokesman for the group explains that it is not because they are racist. He explains it explains the courage and valor of
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Chugiak High School, in Anchorage, Alaska, has banned the display of the Confederate flag at the school for any reason outside of displays for educational purposes.. Principal David Legg announced the decision after a widely circulated photograph of students posed with a version of the flag created controversy and drew complaints of racism in recent
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During his lifetime, history buff William Atteridge built more than a thousand model replicas of Civil War ships. Atteridge started building models from scratch in the mid-1970s, and over the next 40 years, he worked his way through the rosters of Union and Confederate ships. Atteridge left this model collection to his son Larry, who
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