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<text id=91TT0619>
<title>
Mar. 25, 1991: American Notes:The Confederacy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 25
American Notes
THE CONFEDERACY
Forget, Hell!
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<p> The Civil War ended 126 years ago, but the Stars and Bars
can still stir racial tension in the old Confederacy. Three
years ago, 14 black state legislators in Alabama were arrested
for attempting to remove the Confederate flag, symbol of a
slaveholders' rebellion, at the state capitol. In 1983 black
students at the University of Mississippi succeeded in forcing
the school to abandon the flag as its emblem.
</p>
<p> This month a handful of white students at the James F.
Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., which in 1970 banned use
of the flag in official activities, began demanding the right
to wear it on their clothes. What started as a violation of the
school's code of conduct soon developed into a full-scale
freedom of speech demonstration, with 80 students and parents
parading the rebel banner on Duncan's East Main Street. Said
10th-grader Jamie Dill: "My daddy gave me this [flag]. I
believe in what it stands for." By the time the flap subsided
last week, about 100 students had been suspended.
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