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K Edgerton, a black Confederate advocate, tells of his fondness for the South, the Confederacy, the distinction between the original Klan and another formed forty years later for totally different purposes, and the rarely told truth about Nathan Bedford Forrest.

ASHEVILLE, NC (WYFF) - Hours after "Black Lives Matter" was spray-painted on a Confederate monument in Asheville, North Carolina, H.K. Edgerton stood with a Confederate flag, telling those passing by why he wanted it to continue to fly. Edgerton, a former president of the North Carolina NAACP and one of few African-American members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was outside the monument waving the Confederate flag soon after the graffiti was removed. He said the graffiti artist protested incorrectly. "I'm not going to blame it on a Yankee, because I've seen some southern folk around here that are real...

Many heads turned in Ringgold Wednesday when they saw an African-American man dressed in a Confederate soldier's uniform, carrying a Confederate flag. It wasn't a joke. H.K. Edgerton came to Ringgold to make a bold statement - he opposes city leader's removing the Confederate flag from the city's flag pole. Edgerton says the Confederate flag is misunderstood, feared and hated because people are trying to be politically correct - which he says desecrates the honor and real meaning of the Civil War era emblem. "I'm here because your town council climbed into bed with all the politically correct folks who...

LATTA, S.C. - A 15-year-old girl led a small protest march Monday over her high school's ban on Confederate flag clothing, which she is also challenging in court. Candice Hardwick walked with about a dozen people, about half of them family members and some wearing Confederate T-shirts, a few blocks to Latta High School. Hardwick wore a Confederate belt buckle and button and had the Confederate flag on her cell phone cover. She removed those items before entering the school, where she is a sophomore. Hardwick says she wants to wear the emblem to pay tribute to ancestors who fought...

The HK Edgerton Report From: H.K. Edgerton [mailto:hk@csaweb.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:02 PM To: 'exec@slrc-csa.org' Subject: Morris Dees On Tuesday night, February 28, 2006, I had the opportunity to travel the some 70 miles over to the college campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C. where the Chief Trial Counsel Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law center would speak at the Performing Arts Center. I must say that to learn prior to traveling there, of the huge victory earned in the Jacqueline Duty Case by the Southern Legal Resource Center in the 11th District where we...

Today H.K. Edgerton, a black man from Asheville, N.C., will walk into Maryville with a Confederate flag and a hope for ``dialogue.'' He'll stop at the Blount County Courthouse, at about 1 p.m., to get his message out, one that he hopes will bring blacks and whites together, rather than divide people. He walked this week from Johnson City and has experienced both affection and anger from people he's met on the road. ``This is not about a longevity trip, not like it was when I walked to Texas. This is more about coming to Maryville to try to change...

Maryville, Blount County (WVLT) - No matter where you go across the south, almost everybody's got an opinion on the rebel flag. If you remember earlier this month, the Maryville School Board banned the flag from any school related function, but an African American man well known to civil rights issues says that's not right and he's taking his protest to the roadways. Blount County Bureau Chief Stephen McLamb caught up with him on Thursday. The Maryville School Board this month banned flying the Confederate flag amid racial tensions but that hasn't stopped H. K. Edgerton, a former NAACP leader,...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. A civil rights activist is carrying a Confederate battle flag from Johnson City to Maryville because he says southern pride is being silenced with a pending school decision. H.K. Edgerton -- who is black -- says no more Rebel flags will be allowed at high school football games there if the school board proposal passes. The school board is expected to vote to limit flags and noise makers later this month. Maryville schools director Mike Dalton says the board feels like the group should deal with anything that's offensive to some. But Edgerton says banning the flag is...

If you were driving down the road and saw a black man carrying a Confederate flag, what would your reaction be? Many of us would have to admit that we would be surprised to say the least because the sight of a Confederate flag is likely to spark strong emotions. To some, the symbol represents a part of the honorable history of people who held high principles. To others, the flag represents only hatred and oppression. At times, these opposing viewpoints reach the forefront of discussion such as in the case of whether clothing depicting the Confederate flag is appropriate...

The month of February has begun and so has the celebration of Black History Month in the nation, schools and communities. Throughout this time, many noteworthy leaders, citizens, scientists and soldiers who fought in wars and conflicts will be recognized. However, there is one group of African Americans who will receive no recognition again this year during this month. I am speaking of black Confederates who served and fought to defend their homeland from what they believed to be an armed invasion. Advertisement The South was home to some 4 million who lived there and had roots going back more...

Sunday, January 22, 2005 Confederate Funeral For Mother of Local Southern Civil Rights Leader Anna Belle Edgerton's beliefs were as controversial in life as they were in death. Her son, H.K., a self proclaimed Southern civil rights activist and former head of the Asheville NAACP proudly carries the confederate battle flag at her funeral. He said, "I want people to understand that this is our flag, this is our Southland...even though folks don't wanna tell that story." The service was supposed to be held at Hill Street Baptist Church but waiting on the steps were the Board of Deacons who...

DINWIDDIE - An African-American man from western North Carolina marched through Dinwiddie County on U.S. Route 1 yesterday, waving his huge Confederate flag as he headed toward Richmond. Black and white children in a Dinwiddie school bus waved back at H.K. Edgerton, 56, who was born and raised in Asheville, N.C. Last year he served as president of the Asheville NAACP.His march will conclude next week in Richmond, the capital of what had been the capitol for the Confederate States of America.One of Edgerton's goals was to show support for seven workers at the duPont Company plant near Richmond who...

H. K. Edgerton of Asheville speaks at Sons of Confederate Veterans rally at Person County Courthouse Friday. (Ken Martin / C-T) As they paraded down Main Street, the E. Fletcher Satterfield Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans and their supporters sang Dixie and waved what they call a symbol of Southern heritage and history, not of racism or division.In the front line of the peaceful demonstration marched H. K. Edgerton, an African American man who says he is proud of the Confederate battle flag because it is a symbol of all that is Southern, and of the many men, both...

ROXBORO -- Under a warm October sun Friday, a black man carried the Confederate battle flag and led 20 white men up the middle of Main Street to the front lawn of the Person County Courthouse, singing "Glory, glory hallelujah. The South will rise again."The old song competed with the squelch and squawk of police radios. Outnumbering the marchers, police officers, sheriff's deputies and state troopers looked on from the corner sidewalks of the courthouse.As the short, gray-bearded man who led the march stepped up to a monument honoring Person County's fallen Civil War soldiers, he was met with cheers...

A black man who says he has no qualms with the Confederacy strolled through Tuskegee carrying a Confederate flag on the Alabama leg of a 1,500-mile walking trip from North Carolina to Texas.H.K. Edgerton, former president of the Asheville, N.C., chapter of the NAACP, said Thursday he wants to raise awareness of blacks who supported the Confederacy during the "War of Northern Aggression.""I'm reclaiming this flag for all the black folks that died fighting for it," Edgerton told the Opelika-Auburn News. "There were a lot of black men who fought bravely for the Confederacy."Edgerton said he sees the Confederate flag...

From its origins in classical thought and Christianity, Western culture has always had a strong tendency towards universalism. This principle has long been expressed in the idea of the unity of human kind and the belief that all human beings had a common origin and were equal before God. During the European Enlightenment, these Christian concepts were secularized to produce the notions of a common human nature and universal human rights. At the same time, the West produced a scientific method that was so successful its practitioners assumed they had found the key that would open the way to knowledge...