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Thu Feb 4, 2016, 08:14 PM Feb 2016

Group Plans Giant Battle Flag Display Across from Historically Black College in Montgomery AL

STEVEN L. TAYLOR · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Members of three Confederate groups are planning to erect a monument featuring a large Confederate flag in front of Alabama State University, the nation’s oldest state-sponsored historically black college ...

... leaders of the Tallassee chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Tallassee Armory Guard and First Capitol Flaggers announced at a meeting this week that donations had been given to support the building of the site, which will be located along Interstate 85 on land donated by a Montgomery doctor.

The group wouldn’t provide the name of the doctor ...

A leader of the Tallassee Confederate Veterans group .. told the newspaper the flag pole would be 50 feet tall and that she hoped “everyone can see it” ...


http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/group-plans-giant-battle-flag-display-across-from-historically-black-college-in-downtown-montgomery-al/

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