Demand comes in following a massacre by a white gunman at a historically black church
Protesters stand around a flying Confederate flag during a rally, asking to take it down outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Sunday (Photo: AFP)
Columbia: Crowds of protesters and two prominent Republicans on Sunday were called for removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina Statehouse following a massacre by a white gunman at a historically black church.
On Saturday, a substantial crowd rallied outside the Statehouse, calling on officials to take down the flag originally flown by the pro-slavery South during the 1861-65 American Civil War. “We must put that flag in its place as a part of history,” said Sarah Leverette, a 95-year-old civil rights activist. Bringing it down means the people killed at the EAM church have not died in vain, she said.
( Source : PTI )
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