1. Dead for 128 years but still on the move

    ... in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn. In 1905, Confederate veterans arranged to move his remains ... Park, as well as two other city parks, Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park. A prominent local ... for the second reburial of Gen. Forrest came only after the June death of Memphis resident and Civil War

  2. Southerners fear loss of heritage, culture

    ... the Confederate flag atop the capitol building in Columbia, many southerners -- especially those whose ... of Confederate Veterans. "I know of one father who is being threatened with arrest by a local ... school principal because he drops his children off at school with a Confederate battle flag flying

  3. College to 'lynch' Confederate flag

    ... College, Edgerton plans to have a candlelight reading of the names of all Confederate soldiers who ... bloodiest battle, plans to allow a black militant artist named John Sims to "lynch" the Confederate ... to Gettysburg by descendants and supporters of the 75,000 Confederate soldiers who fought, bled

  4. It's Al's party now

    ... , conceding that, yes, the Confederate battle flag was a "loathsome symbol." After a long dark night ... as the party of the KKK. Only now it is white folks who love the Confederate flag whom it is permissible ... that Southern folks who paste Confederate flag decals on their pickups should vote for us, because we

  5. Banned from prom over Confederate-flag dress

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    ... because her dress resembled a Confederate battle flag, WMC-TV in Memphis reported. "It wasn't done

  6. Drenched in blood of slavery, Part II

    ... in defending and expanding slavery before the Civil War and promoting Jim Crow laws and the KKK after ... should apologize for slavery (and Jim Crow segregation laws and the KKK), it should be the Democrats ... . Cohen represents the 60 percent black ninth district in Tennessee, which includes Memphis

  7. The latest in the Georgia flag-ban folly

    ... what new Gov. Sonny Perdue so often promised and what the NAACP opposes in its absurd Confederate ... . This was the Confederacy's first national flag and in no way resembles the Confederate Battle Flag ... a Confederate flag. It's completely objectionable." The AP also reported that "Civil-rights leaders

  8. Will suicides be added to Vietnam wall?

    ... Names of thousands of additional Vietnam veterans – those who have committed suicide ... , and there simply isn't room on the wall to include all those names. Current Department of Defense policy allows ... names of veterans who died of combat wounds suffered in the war theater to be added to the wall

  9. Web presentation honors U.S. troops

    ... no idea his work would serve as a rallying point for many Americans wishing to show their support ... and military forces, and has created a rallying point for perhaps over a million supporters of U.S. troops ... . "The first week it was out I received 400 to 500 e-mails a day. After that it was about 50-100

  10. KKK or KKK (Kwame 'Klan' Kilpatrick)?

    ... by the millions to this day. The KKK killed only a few thousands black people, and that was over a 100 ... ): Indeed. Let us examine the record. In 1968, you were the Grand Dragon of the national KKK ... off than they were under the terroristic tactics of the KKK 40 years ago in Birmingham. It is beyond

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