MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With no fanfare, Alabama Robert Bentley ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from a memorial at the Alabama State Capitol on Wednesday amid a growing controversy over their ...

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A 150-year-old Confederate flag was recently restored to its former glory thanks to two Eufaula citizens and a community effort. The flag, which hung on a flagpole in Shorter Mansion, belonged to John ...

April is Confederate Heritage and History Month in Alabama, and one of the South’s enemies in the state has resigned. Great men north and south of the Mason-Dixon line say tragedy strikes when a ...

Mary Norman was shocked Thursday afternoon when Auburn Councilman Arthur L. Dowdell pulled up a Confederate flag placed on her great-grandfather’s grave and snapped it in half, she said. Dowdell, who ...

The American Civil War ended in the 1860s. In the 1950s, the city of Montgomery adopted a flag with Confederate symbolism. That’s why Jeremiah Treece, a 17-year-old student at Booker T. Washington ...