Student files lawsuit over confederate flag ban.

originally from spofga.org but can be found on georgiaheritagecoalition.org also.

Student files suit against school board

The Southern Legal Resource Center

News Release For additional information contact the SLRC at 828.669.5189/slrc@slrc-csa.org

For immediate release Friday, December 17, 2004 Student files suit against school board In Confederate prom dress case

LEXINGTON, KY – A young woman who was turned away from her high school prom because she was wearing a Confederate flag patterned evening gown will hold a press conference Monday after she files suit against the school board and officials who kept her out. Jacqueline Duty, a 2004 graduate of Russellville High School, is asking actual and punitive damages against the Russell Independent Board of Education, Superintendent Ronnie H. Back and Russell High Principal John Howard. The suit will be filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.

Following Monday’s filing, a press conference will be held at 1 p.m. on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse, 101 Barr Street. Ms. Duty will make a brief statement, as will her attorney, Earl Ray Neal, and officials of the Southern Legal Resource Center of Black Mountain, North Carolina, whose Chief Trial Counsel will act as co-counsel.

Former SLRC client Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference. Neal and Lyons/SLRC represented Castorina in the 5 ½ year court struggle

“Ms. Duty was intimidated and humiliated on what should have been one of the happiest nights of her young life by some very overzealous and wrong-headed people,” said SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie. “She is entitled to vindication and we will work to see that she gets it.”

Earl Ray Neal is an attorney and adjunct Law Professor in Richmond, KY

The Southern Legal Resource Center is a nonprofit law firm that advocates on behalf of persons whose civil and constitutional rights have been violated in connection with expression of their Confederate heritage.
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT: Roger McCredie (828) 669-5189 exec@slrc-csa.org rebscape@charter.net

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ahem Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference

[cvn76 #32] i'll never understand why otherwise good people would defend it.

Here is one man's explanation.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA DIVISION

JAMES ANDREW COLEMAN Plaintiff,

ZELL MILLER,GOVERNOR OF
THE STATE OF GEORGIA
and
THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Defendants.

CIVIL ACTION FILE
NO. 1:94 - CV -1673 - ODE

AFFIDAVIT OF STAFF SGT. EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III

Personally appeared before the undersigned officer, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, STAFF SGT. EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III, and states the following:

My name is Eddie Brown Page, III. I have personal knowledge of the matters addressed in this Affidavit. I am over the age of majority and am suffering for no legal disabilities.

I make this affidavit for use in the above-styled case and for any other lawful and proper use of this Court.

I am a native Atlantan and Georgian. I am an African-American and a patriotic Southerner. I am a graduate of from Georgia State University. I also attended Clark-Atlanta University, graduated from Atlanta Metropolitan Collge, Atlanta Area Technical School and Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta. I am currently a full-time student again at Atlanta Area Technical School and serve on the student government as Representative of Automotive Technology Program and President of the Vocational Industrial Club of America (VICA) chapter; I am also the post-secondary State of Georgia Historian of VICA for all Georgia post-secondary schools and technical colleges, for the 1994-95 term. I am a free-lance professional musician of Local 148-462 of the American Federation of Musicians, Atlanta Federation of Musicians Chapter. I am also a music teacher at the Gate City Heritage Preparatory School, teaching grades 1-4. I work as a cashier-clerk at the West End Newsstand. I am a soldier with the 116th Army Band of the Georgia National Guard. My rank is Staff Sergeant. My duties are double-reed section leader and unit career counselor. I am an honor graduate of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina - squad leader of the cycle. I am also a graduate of Georgia Military Institute, honor graduate, basic Non-Commissioned Officer course; graduate of the basic retention NCO course, Camp Robinson, Arkansas; graduate of the NCO battle skills course at Camp Robinson, Arkansas; graduate of the senior ROTC advanced camp, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The lineage of my current service unit (the 116th Army Band of the Georgia National Guard) dates back to 1862, under Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy and Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia. Based on my own study of my unit's history, a significant number of African-Americans served in the Confederate militias as musicians, as I do presently in the Guard, and they were decreed by the Confederate Congress to receive the same pay as Whites; musicians in the Union Army received unequal pay.

As a native Georgian, I was born under the "1879" Georgia memorial flag, based on the Confederate Stars and Bars, but enlisted under and have continuously served under the 1956 Georgia flag with the cross of St. Andrew, also known as the Confederate battle flag. I am a distinguished graduate and alumnus of Joseph Emerson Brown High School of Atlanta, Georgia, named after a Governor of Georgia during the War Between the States who later became Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and U. S. Senator from GEorgia (Governor Brown was also the first president of the Atlanta Board of Education and champion of public education as an alumni of the University of Georgia). The "nickname" and "mascot" of Brown High School was the "Rebels." Its colors were Confederate gray and infantry royal blue, dedicated as a living memorial to the Confederacy, like our current Georgia flag. As a member of the Brown High Rebel Band, I wore an authentic reproduction of the uniform worn by my African-American forefathers who served in that capacity during the War Between the States. "Dixie" was the school song (this song was made famous by Ohioan Dan Emmett and composed by two Black minstrels, the Snowden brothers, who taught the song to Emmett). The school flag was the Confederate battle flag. As an eighth grader at Brown High School, I was taunted by one White schoolmate who told me to "put that flag down" because it was a "white man's symbol," and that it didn't belong to me and for me to "get my own" symbol. As a result, I embarked upon the study of my African-American Southern heritage and my forefathers' contributions to the Confederate States of America.

My many years of study on this subject show that Blacks made significant contributions to the Confederate war effort as free people of color and as slaves. I found out that while President Abraham Lincoln was resolute in refusing to use Blacks as soldiers, the Confederate States from the beginning used African-Americans for all army chores and even as fighting men. Black men furnished most of the cooks, mess attendants, teamsters, stablemen, builders of fortifications, brake-men, baggagemen, track layers and porters, and were also musicians and combatants or bodyguards. Black women served as nurses in the Confederate military services.

For me, as a native of the South and as a soldier, the St. Andrew's cross on the Georgia flag symbolizes my heritage - respect for the courage and sacrifice of my patriotic forefathers, free people of color and slaves, for the constitutional principle of sovereignty of the states of the founding fathers - and not racism, current events or the institution of "slavery." For me, the Confederate symbolism of the current state flag should be understood as representing and acknowledging the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans and Jewish persons, as well as European Americans, that is, a multicultural heritage. To do so would strip the Confederate symbolism of its racial potency and would underscore our common heritage. I directly rebut those who see in the St. Andrews Cross a symbol of white supremacy, segregation and "state's rights".

FURTHER, AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

/s/ Eddie Brown Page, III GAARNG
EDDIE BROWN PAGE, III

Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 15th day of December 1994.

/s/ Sandra C. Hembree
Notary Public

My Commission Expires:
/stamp/
Notary Public, Douglas County, Georgia
My Commission Expires March 24, (unreadable, appears to be 1996 or 1998)

"!!!!!!!"

at least this posting was not as nasty as the usual.

time for the dr stand and watie "free willie" UPDATE!!!!

the good dr on another thread (confederate flag of course),
attempted to "spin" out of the university professor / company employee snafu he got himself into.

his explanation!

he is a POLICY WONK!!!! for a COMPANY. and as such he is also a GUEST LECTURER POLICY WONK DUDE at the university!!!!

"NOPE i'm NOT a professor .........i'm what they call i "guest lecturer" for a local college."

"in point of fact i'm a "POLICY WONK" for a "nonprofit"corporation (i.e., the company i work for)."

free dixie,sw

246 posted on 12/23/2004 8:57:56 AM PST by stand watie

WHOA dr stand!!! earlier in that very same thread you posted this:

"it has been my expierience (sp) throughout graduate school & TEACHING on this campus,......

"in point of fact, a GENERATION (20+ years for the "LAOTZU"s out there) ago, i had an IBM ball-typewriter converted to NO caps. (LOL!!!! sure you did, dr watie!!!lol!!!!)that drove the ........ on the FACULTY crazy....." (CAPS and guffaws added for emphasis.)

free dixie,sw
237 posted on 12/22/2004 8:52:44 AM PST by stand watie

so the doc has been a GUEST lecturer for 20+ years who sends out FACULTY notes!!!!!! lol... AND gets the university to modify his typewriter.

but, of course doc! it's clear to us now.

like i said .... i can't make this stuff up. the hilarity just rolls on and on with the good doc!!!!

what will you be in the near future, doc?

some of us are anxious to follow your meteoric career path!!!!

lol!!!!!!!! "free your dixie/willie"!!!!

i just found out on yet another confederate thread (surprise, surprise again) that coupled with your

a)illustrious service record defending all of us
b)life in academia
c)business world acumen as a POLICY WONK (forgive my mirth
at your expense...that one just...what can i say?)
d)reserved for whatever other things turn up in old posts.

you are also an american indian!!!!!!

again i say, of course you are.

with that, i'll leave you with a link to a bit of your fr legacy......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250410/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

it is 900+ posts long and in it what will people find dr "freewillie"?

they will find the 30+ instances of the same snarling, nasty responses they find in this thread!!

directed at those who disagree on some point with the good dr watie.

VERBATIM (tough word i know, look it up dr).

i feel some sympathy toward you after viewing your posting history in these other threads.

same words over and over.

but you make us freepers look bad due to your affiliation with this board.

responding to your attacks is even worse than the hand grenade/fishing analogy.

i now think it's like clubbing baby seals or hunting chicklets with a 12gauge running 3inch magnum rifled slugs.

BUCK UP!! my man.

crack open those books at the university!! (snicker, snicker). bone up on that vocab and get some new stuff to hurl at people.

btw, i didn't start out attacking you professor/indian chief wonksalot.

i entered a post which i later backed off somewhat from due to the regional context i had of this issue.
you elected to go into attack mode.

i won't stand down to fools like you though, and i'm sure we'll cross again the next time you blast someone else.

what's that smell dr willie?

teen spirit??? no....

it smells like .......BURNT FRAUD!!!!

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