South Carolina has not always flown the flag. The state’s first modern hoisting of the standard came in 1961, as part of official commemorations of the centennial anniversary of the beginning of ...

Georgia changed its state flag to embody the Confederate battle ... Robinson stated that when the Confederate flag was first flown over South Carolina’s statehouse in 1961, and it was hoisted ...

The flag the committee proposed doesn’t differ too wildly from the original iconography ... pleased to see the State moving to standardize the official design of South Carolina’s iconic ...

This is about ensuring South Carolina flags simply look alike ... and he helped secure the state’s first-in-the-South primary. But his fight for the flag was righteous and would be special ...

History met the modern age in the worst way when South Carolina residents got their first look at the proposed state flag. A committee of historians got together to decide on the specifics of the ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina has just two symbols on ... to introduce legislation to choose a uniform state flag design. He got his first chance to pitch his flag ideas Wednesday.

The South Carolina law that allows the Confederate ... of the Statehouse for more than five decades. The state first raised the flag atop the capitol in 1961, the centennial of the beginning ...

On Friday morning just after 10, the Confederate flag on South Carolina's State House grounds was removed ... The Confederate flag was first placed on the dome in the 1960s.

Doug Brannon, first elected in 2010 ... and why it landed where it did.” South Carolina was the last state to fly the Confederate battle flag from its Statehouse dome until a 2000 compromise ...

The flag the committee proposed doesn’t differ too wildly from the original iconography ... pleased to see the State moving to standardize the official design of South Carolina’s iconic ...