Calls for removal of Confederate flag in Kennesaw GA
Ben Brasch
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
8:07 p.m Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017
... In downtown Kennesaw the flag flies at the corner of Main and Cherokee streets just outside the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History ...
The petition says the flag is there to commemorate William A. Fuller, the Confederate train conductor whose reclaiming of a locomotive during one of the Civil War’s largest train chases led to the deaths of eight Union raiders.
“This man is not someone worth idolization or commemoration,” the petition says. “ ... The removal of the Confederate flag from the public flag pole in downtown Kennesaw would serve as a message to all that our community strives for equality and unity, rather than disparity and division” ...
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/petition-calls-for-removal-confederate-flag-kennesaw/y8dz1TdWvFOi8GlUJ9WmtK/
