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South Carolina Coalition of Black Church Leaders Rejects Confederate Flag Compromise

HeadlineMay 26, 2000

This news from South Carolina: A coalition of black churches has rejected South Carolina’s Confederate flag compromise and says it will back the NAACP’s call for an expanded boycott of the state. The South Carolina Coalition of Black Church Leaders said yesterday it would continue to support the boycott called by the NAACP even though lawmakers have voted to remove the flag from the State House dome. The State House and Senate agreed last week to remove the flag from the Capitol and place it instead on a thirty-foot pole near a Confederate monument on the State House grounds. South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges signed the bill, saying the move would help bring South Carolinians closer together. But Reverend Joe Darby, Chair of the Church Coalition, said the bill doesn’t go far enough.

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