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  • Order to Fly Rebel Flag Rankles NAACP

    06/06/2005 2:04:19 PM PDT · by Irontank · 19 replies · 843+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | June 5, 2005
    The NAACP expressed outrage Saturday over Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt’s order to fly the Confederate flag over a state historic site, and asked the public to rally against it. Blunt ordered the flag flown today, for one day only, at the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site near Higginsville in honor of Confederate Memorial Day. The order came after Rep. Mike McGhee, an Odessa Republican, made the request on behalf of local residents. Mary Ratliff, the president of the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she had already written the governor to ask...