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AUSTIN, Texas — The Civil War ended nearly 142 years ago, for most of the country anyway, but bitter battles over how zealously that war should be remembered are erupting in Austin, the Texas capital. First, rock musician Ted Nugent wore a T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups — at the Jan. 16 inaugural ball for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, prompting criticism from civil-rights groups. A few days later, the state's elected land commissioner, arguing for a more "balanced" view of history, marked Confederate Heroes Day — an official state holiday...

Texas students sue to carry purses decorated with Confederate flag By Martha DellerMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)DALLAS - Two Burleson High School students filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the Burleson school district over a year-old incident in which school officials denied them the right to carry Confederate battle flag purses to school.Attorneys for the Southern Legal Resource Center prepared the lawsuit on behalf of Aubrie Michelle McAllum and Ashley Paige Thomas, who contend their constitutional rights were violated in January 2006 when school officials prevented them from carrying their new purses to school.The teens were not punished for carrying the purses,...

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Houston & Texas News Dec. 27, 2006, 10:53PM UT to explore fate of statues that honor the Confederacy AUSTIN — University of Texas President William Powers Jr. said he plans to form an advisory committee to study whether something should be done about the numerous campus statues honoring the Confederacy. The statues have in recent history become a topic of debate among students, professors and administrators. They include four bronze figures on the South Mall honoring Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Powers said he plans to appoint a committee...

Republicans back Forrest name By SCOTT BRODEN sbroden@dnj.com The counter petition to retain the name of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest at the Army ROTC building at MTSU included the names of three local Republican leaders. Rutherford County Mayor Ernest Burgess, State Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville and Rutherford County Republican Party Chairman Howard Wall confirmed Tuesday that they were among the 1,350 people to sign a petition organized by MTSU sophomore Matthew Hurtt. ADVERTISEMENT The counter petition was in response to an earlier petition from MTSU senior Amber Perkins, who presented a petition to the university's Student Government Association...

Speeches: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remarks of James Webb at the Confederate Memorial June 3, 1990 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is by no means my first visit to this spot. The Confederate Memorial has had a special place in my life for many years. During the bitter turbulence of the early and mid1970's I used to come here quite often. I had recently left the Marine Corps and was struggling to come to grips with my service in Vietnam, and with the misperceptions that seemed rampant about the people with whom I had served and what, exactly we had attempted to accomplish. And there were...

The principal at a Fayette County middle school has banned all clothing with the confederate flag emblem...

Marion County teen defies ban on Confederate flag clothing By CHRISTOPHER CURRY Ocala Star-Banner October 05. 2006 6:01AM OCALA - A student at North Marion High School is opposing a ban on clothing that displays the Confederate battle flag. On Monday, sophomore April Brenay, 15, began to circulate a petition among students urging that the school do away with the dress code policy banning clothing with the Confederate flag. On Wednesday, Brenay wore a Dixie Outfitters-brand shirt with a Confederate flag on the back and the message: "If this flag offends you, you need a history lesson." Brenay said school...

By CATHIE SHAFFER For The Independent FLATWOODS In a few weeks, Jacqueline Duty will graduate from Russell High School. Like other future graduates everywhere, she's savoring the special moments of her last year of high school. Among the highlights was to be her senior prom, where she'd enter the decorated gymnasium wearing a dress she designed herself, to reflect who she is. But instead of being greeted by her classmates Saturday as she walked in on the arm of her date, she was greeted outside the school by police officers and school officials — because of that choice in dresses....

On our way to the beach for the Fourth of July, we made a pit stop for boiled peanuts. Couldn't get there without them. They cured the "car fever" that was ailing us and got us in just the right mood for our long-awaited, patriotic beach venture. And better yet, when we arrived at our brother-in-law's house, he had a big pot of his own peanuts boiling. That's where the conversation got started. Do you like yours "al dente" or so soggy that you slurp 'em more than you eat 'em? I prefer the slurping variety. And the saltier the...

The Bush Administration has rewarded the South for its loyalty. Having successfully continued the Executive usurpation of Congressional authority to negotiate trade contracts, thanks to NAFTA and "Fast-Track", as well as Congressional authority to declare war, Bush now enjoys unchallenged power. His latest exercise in imperial Executive authority came last week when he awarded the Socialist Republic of Vietnamincreases in its textile export quotas to the US from $49 million to $1.5 billion. This is good news for the Vietnamese, but more grim news for Southern textile workers. The Southern textile industry has closed more than 150 mills and slashed...

Letter to the Editor: Southern heritage suffered from neglect Carolina Morning News Jennifer Moore's recent article about Confederate flag protests at two Beaufort County high schools is humiliating. The story is humiliating because we, their parents and grandparents, are not doing the protesting. It is we, their elders, who have allowed others to chip away at our Southern culture and heritage for over 20 years. It is we, the older generations, that have allowed the memory of our ancestors to be tarnished. It is we who have permitted the erosion of our freedoms. Freedom is an intangible word that has...

An early symbol of South Carolina's independent streak has been returned to the state after more than 160 years. An 1833 flag from a militia group called the Abbeville Dragoons has been donated to the Confederate Relic Room and Museum by a Mississippi woman whose great-great-great-grandfather left South Carolina with the flag in 1859. Officials probably will send the banner to a Maryland flag conservation company for preservation, then put it on display in the museum in about six weeks. The hand-painted silk banner, 20¼ inches by 25¾ inches, shows a palmetto tree and the state seal on the front....

(CNSNews.com) - As part of Black History Month, the public library system in Norfolk, Va., is honoring African-Americans who fought and died on behalf of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Robert Harrison, director of the Horace Downing Branch library in Norfolk, said blacks are rarely portrayed as supporting the Confederacy because politically correct historians prefer to connect the South and the Confederate flag with the evils of slavery. But history tells another side of the story, he said. Harrison said the Horace Downing Library will spend one day, Feb. 25, re-creating Civil War encampments and re-enacting the roles that...

Published: October 16, 2002 Black man carries Confederate flag from N.C. to Texas Passers-by on Old Highway 25 waved and honked their car horns at a man wearing the uniform and bearing the flag of the Confederate army Tuesday. NYT Regional Newspapers TUXEDO, N.C. — Passers-by on Old Highway 25 waved and honked their car horns at a man wearing the uniform and bearing the flag of the Confederate army Tuesday. White supremacist? Not exactly. H.K. Edgerton, 55, is a black man. But he considers his “March Across Dixie” a celebration of Southern pride and black dignity, not racism...

October 3, 2002 -- The Cherokee County School Board is dealing with a clothing controversy of its own, which bans Dixie outfitter clothing.So far, there is no change in the policy, but last night the school board heard plenty of arguments for changing the policy.Some people came from surrounding counties to voice their opinions about the Confederate Flag and wearing confederate symbols.Many students and parents insist it's not about promoting discrimination but rather southern pride and history."Your students are not racist," one speaker said. "It's your teachers and your principals that's the problem."The principal at Cherokee High School has formed...

<p>WASHINGTON, Va. — Congressional candidate Ben "Cooter" Jones wants everyone to know he's just a good old boy, never meanin' no harm.</p> <p>He's just proud of his Southern heritage — and that includes the Confederate battle flag, says Mr. Jones, the former star of "The Dukes of Hazzard," CBS' hit TV show of the early '80s.</p>

Not his own dream, but rather the dream of many NASCAR fans. When Todd walks into the media center today for the running of the New Hampshire 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway it will be just another day at school. Todd is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of California-Santa Cruz who is traveling to all 36 Winston Cup events this season, compiling research for his doctoral dissertation in cultural anthropology tentatively titled "NASCAR and Southern Culture." Before the project began, Todd knew almost nothing about NASCAR.

<p>When the Confederate flag got "flagged" from state houses in the South, it inspired impassioned debate between whites claiming their heritage was attacked and African Americans enraged over the images of slavery it conjures.</p> <p>Discussion continues in several states. The controversy about why people fly the Confederate flag is the subject of today's Think Tank.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - A South Carolina man believes he's being discriminated against by his employer because of his affiliation with a group that celebrates its Southern heritage. Richard Smith's employer said the company's just enforcing its 'Rules of Conduct.'Smith, a proud member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), said the whole controversy began last November when his employer, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, reprimanded him for displaying the traditional Georgia state flag in his office.According to Smith, human resources forced him to remove the state flag because it contained a Confederate battle flag in the background that may be "offensive" to...