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Public Interest

May 13, 2000

Racist Confederate Flag Did, Still Does, Embody Slavery

Forum: By Vernon Jarrett Nearly 150 years after the Confederate battle flag last flew above a rebel army, the meaning of that bit of cloth is still controversial.


         By Vernon Jarrett
        
        Nearly 150 years after the Confederate battle flag last flew above a rebel army, the meaning of that bit of cloth is still controversial.
        Is it an innocent, harmless symbol of a region's cultural heritage, without political or racial impli...

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