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Confederate Flag Flies in Europe and South America The flag known for its ties to the Civil War has an impact abroad too.
The flag, and efforts to ban it, had caused a rift among members of the Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow. By Claire Moses Reporting from London A country and western music venue in Scotland, nearly 4,000 ...
Although the Confederate flag — a symbol of white power and racism — is not as common in Europe as a swastika or other Nazi iconography, it is still widely used among xenophobic, nationalist ...
Originally adopted by the Council of Europe thirty years earlier, the twelve golden stars on a blue background became the ...
European skinheads and neo-Nazi groups have adopted the Confederate flag and variations of it because of its historical context as a symbol of racism and white supremacy.
So how far do we take this whole Confederate battle flag thing? That’s the debate gripping the nation 150 years after the end of the Civil War.
Yes, a flag used by soldiers fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War was now being flown almost a century and a half later by a bunch of Italian soccer fans in a West London ...
The Confederate battle flag is a potent symbol of white supremacy, no matter how revisionists reframe it. Keep it off flag poles at national cemeteries.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Confederate battle flag was born ...
Put the flag in a museum, as President Obama suggested. Engrave the names of Confederate fallen, if you wish, on historical markers.
Owing to Duke’s influence, in fact, the Confederate flag has long served as a substitute for Nazi banners in demonstrations, often violent, by “white nationalists” in Europe — where the ...