In the wake of the June 2015 mass shooting and anti-African American hate crime in a Charleston, S.C., church, many public officials, including the state’s governor, called for the removal ...

the Confederate flag predictably makes appearances at white supremacist gatherings. But how did the battle flag, also known as the Southern Cross, come to represent the Confederacy in the first place?

youtube.com Two chapters of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, still grieving defeat after nearly 158 years, waved hostile Southern Cross battle flags along with national flags from a parade wagon.

Today, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination voted to repudiate the Confederate battle flag and it’s time ... in Christ,” said Alan Cross, a Southern Baptist minister from Alabama ...

Many don’t recognize the Confederate flags when they fly on Castle Pinckney because they are always the lesser-known divisional or national banners, never the Southern Cross that became the ...

two confederate flags. In recent years, the flag has been spotted during rallies and protests and one wonders what exactly it means. Also known as the Southern Cross, the history of the flag dates ...

The initial lawsuit was filed after James Bible of Sons of the Southern Cross was told the group could not fly the Confederate battle flag during the parade. The complaint states this was a violation ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the "Southern Cross" as its battle flag ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the “Southern Cross” as its battle flag ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the “Southern Cross” as its battle flag ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the “Southern Cross” as its battle flag ...

Along Interstate 40 in Hildebran, two large Confederate flags have been replaced with American and Christian flags, a white field with a white cross inside ... of Mama B's Southern Kitchen ...