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A lawsuit was filed today in Federal Court, along with a request for a request for an Emergency Temporary Restraining Order that seeks to prevent the City of St. Augustine, Florida from removing the oldest Confederate monument in Florida, in the state’s oldest City. The primary plaintiff on the lawsuit is HK Edgerton, past President of the National Association of Colored People “NAACP” in his home town of Asheville, NC and includes 10 counts including violations of the plaintiff’s Constitution rights under the 1st and 14th Amendments. There are nine other plaintiffs in the case including the Ladies Memorial Association...

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...

Valley Springs School blocks H.K. Edgerton appearance Don’t be surprised if you’re driving on Long Shoals Road next week and see H.K. Edgerton picketing Valley Springs Middle School. He’ll be easy to recognize. He’ll be the black man wearing the Confederate uniform, carrying the Confederate battle flag. He says he’ll be picketing against political correctness and the lack of free speech inside the windowless government building. Edgerton’s ire was raised to fever pitch last week when Valley Springs principal Tom Keever rescinded a student-issued invitation to speak to 8th graders studying the Civil War. The appearance was blocked due to...

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...

Gettysburg College, in the center of that national military shrine of the Western Hemisphere's bloodiest battle, plans to allow a black militant artist named John Sims to "lynch" the Confederate Battle Flag from the top of a 13-foot gallows. "We have freedom of expression on this campus, of course. We are prepared for demonstration," said Kendra Branchick, media relations director for the 2,500 student school, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The event is scheduled for Sept. 3. When asked if such demonstrations were to include U.S. flag burners coming from New York protests against the Republican convention,...

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...

Flag-carrying Black man creates stir in Jamestown By Jane E. Whitehorne Jamestown NC - With the fire and brimstone of an old time circuit rider, H.K. Edgerton takes his history lesson to the people. A believer in the Southland of Amer-ica, Edgerton stands in defense of the Confederate flag and Southern heritage. He says his favorite thing is to carry his flag and talk about the South. Edgerton is a black man. He creates quite a stir wherever he goes as he stands quietly on street corners holding the Cross of St. Andrew, commonly called the Con-federate flag. On a...

Blacks join Confederate Army heritage group By Keisha Stewart BlackNews.com As some Black people trace their family history, they may find Confederate soldiers related to them. Some of them join a somewhat controversial Southern heritage group for various reasons after learning about their family connection to the Civil War. In Long Beach, California, the Hollands didn’t join the Sons of Confederate Veterans to support the Southern heritage or the beloved blazing stars and bars. As William Holland mined his family’s history, he found that their great grandfather, Creed Holland, a Virginia slave, worked as a teamster for the Confederate Army...

One thousand six hundred and six point one miles on foot; traveling twenty miles per day, six days per week. Asheville, NC to Austin, Texas. One does not make such a trip for personal glory, or for want of fame. One carries the Christian Cross of St. Andrew as ones ancestors did, defending and standing for what one believes to be right. I am led by a strong sense of ancestral duties to my South Land, and with the knowledge that she has been and continues to be wronged by the very nation she helped build. What began as a...

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...

12-12-2002 Compatriots, Today started off as another great day for H.K.'s March Across Dixie. We had 5 marchers to go along with H.K. We marched along Hwy 80 East into Choudrant, LA amidst a ear blasting parade of cars and trucks blowing horns and waving. As we proceeded out of Choudrant, we were contacted by the local radio station for a live On-the-Road interview. It went great and brought out more people as we came into Ruston, LA. Just outside of Ruston we were met by a reporter from the Ruston Daily Leader Newspaper. We made the front page of...