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Last week, people protesting the removal of Confederate flags in New Orleans brandished guns, and at least one assault rifle, within range of a local school known for diversity.

To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal - leaning college town.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

The Hunger Games director thoroughly researched American farmer and soldier Newton Knight, who led a band of Confederate army deserters during the...

You start as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War, but quickly desert to go back to your family home and do some saving.

A state agency has been asked to determine the costs of removing Confederate monuments from state property and find alternative spots for their placement, Cooper said.

His comments come as some have called for the removal of Columbus's statue from Columbus Circle as officials re-assess historic monuments in the wake of an outcry over Confederate statues in southern cities.

Newsome, a 32 - year - old black woman, is some 20 feet up the flagpole outside the South Carolina State House, with Confederate battle flag in hand.

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Some question whether schools here should be named after figures from Confederate history â $ «examples include Lee High School, named after General Robert E. Lee.

HOWARD DEAN»S controversial crack about «guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks» has cost him the endorsement of a top New York Democrat, The Post has learned.

In South Carolina, the roads that black people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road.

The trailer, and the final poster (also below), feature quotes from Martin Scorsese praising the «audacious» concept of this thriller about Civil War confederates who end up trapped in a field filled with mushrooms.

Designate half the groups as Union soldiers and half the groups as Confederate soldiers.

1st DC Cavalry Henry Rifle Captured by Confederate General Wade Hampton During the Beefsteak Raid and Given to His Adjutant, Major Henry B. McClellan, a Lee Letter, and an Image of McClellan, c.

Formed in the wake the nationwide dialogue about Confederate memorials, the commission is co-chaired by Tom Finkelpearl, the city's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation

The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Tuesday to fine the city of Memphis $ 250,000 for removing Confederate monuments.

Arkansas is the last former Confederate state where Democrats still control both chambers of the Legislature.

It explores the subject of racial violence and intimidation, incorporating imagery based on the memorial carving of Confederate leaders at Georgia's Stone Mountain into a disturbing composition of silhouetted figures.

City's Ban on Flying Confederate Flag on City Flagpoles Angers Heritage Groups Main «Thou Shalt Not...» Visit Six Flags Great America for the Remainder of Your Life»

Even within the family of Robert E. Lee, there are divisions over what should be done about Confederate monuments and what their ancestor stands for now.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) created joint training opportunities across TELI (Tribal Early Learning Initiative) partners around the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning

After the year of Charlottesville and clashes over Confederate statues, how we address the racist history of this country feels remarkably timely, and, hopefully, this film can be an important conversation - starter along those lines.

In particular, the moment when the freed men and women are abandoned by the creek as Confederate forces descend will surprise and horrify many readers.

Raeford was named after Confederate General Robert F. Hoke and today, it has a population of roughly 4,600 residents.

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP)-- Two members of Congress from New York are pressing Army officials to rename the U.S. Military Academy barracks named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

WHEN «Professor» Thaddeus S. Lowe climbed into his hydrogen balloon to spy on Confederate troops in the American Civil War, he could never have imagined that more than 130 years later he would be spied on himself — in digital form and from halfway across the world.

Reps. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat, and Dwight Evans, a Pennsylvania Democrat, penned a joint OpEd about the need to remove confederate symbols from their «place of reverence on federal public land.»

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis was critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio's intention to create a commission to consider removing statues and other public art honoring Confederate soldiers and other public figures whose actions are regarded as dishonorable.

The researcher had over 100 female undergraduate participants arrive at the study where an attractive male confederate who was, unbeknownst to the female participants, a part of the study, waited.

The country rock singer is known for displaying Confederate flags at his concerts, making anti-transgender comments at a show, endorsing President Donald Trump, and slamming Colin Kaepernick.

Garzik believes all blockchains, even private chains, must be based on public technology: «And then from side chains, private chains, confederated chain perspective, use that same software and simply build a gate around that permissions who is going to use that system.

After an ambush that left Sandy dead, Captain Merna, thinking that Mac had perished as well, took his men west towards the Colorado Rockies following a map taken off a dead Confederate officer showing the location of the famed «Reynolds Treasure» that had been buried somewhere in the region of South Park, Colorado.

It's set soon after the Civil War and there still exists a palpable uneasiness between Confederate and Union types, creating a constantly teetering milieu between violence and progress.

Some question whether schools here should be named after figures from Confederate history — examples include Lee High School, named after General Robert E. -LSB-...]

In a separate study in a more «real - world» setting, the researcher had an attractive male confederate ask 600 young women, all of whom were walking alone in a shopping mall, for their phone number.

They also tried to delay a high - level Confederate delegation from traveling to the White House to agree on a piece treaty.

While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long - lost Confederate ship.

With a makeshift band of escaped slaves and disgruntled farmers, he held several counties in Mississippi against Confederate forces and survived the war.

While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor Civil War soldiers who died for the South.

Some tours offer the opportunity to crawl into caves where Confederate soldiers and moonshiners used to hide.

To our great shame, there's a significant portion of Americans who would cheer on seeing confederate flag trunks.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

Based on James Lee Burke's novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, the film sees Jones playing a detective investigating a murder in New Orleans.

Very true, Larry: compare the old Union states with the old confederate states and how they voted 2012.