A Brief History Of The Confederate Flag

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*CORRECTION: 1:31 should read as In June 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof, allegedly murdered nine people inside a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof was charged with murdering nine members of a prayer group at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. • The BuzzFeed News App: Smart. Interesting. Emojis. Download on the App Store: http://bit.ly/1HUhZzc • Check out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo! • http://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedvideo • MUSIC • Battle Cry of Freedom • Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc. • STILLS • William Porcher Miles: “Hon. Wm. P. Miles of S.C.”- Library of Congress/Creative Commons • 'Stars and Bars' Flag, captured at Columbia, South Carolina - Wisconsin Veterans Museum/Creative Commons • ‘Stainless banner’Second national confederate flag - Collection of Curator Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command/Creative Commons • ‘Blood Stained Banner’ - Third Confederate National Flag - J. Stephen Conn/Flickr Creative Commons • Little Rock, 1959 - Library of Congress, U.S. News World Report Magazine Photograph Collection/Public Domain • Ku Klux Klan Holds Annual Gathering In Tennessee - Getty Images/Spencer Platt/Staff • Mississippi state flag - Public Domain • Ku Klux Klan Flag - Creative Commons • Dylann Roof - Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston - Getty Images/Pool • Dylann Roof - lastrhodesian.com • Nikki Haley And Lindsey Graham Hold Press Conf. On Confederate Flag At SC State Capital - Getty/Joe Raedle/Staff • VIDEO • Confederate Flag - Shutterstock • SOURCES • https://books.google.com/books?id=zs0... • goo.gl/RZ29Sk • http://www.moc.org/collections-archiv... • http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/sy... • http://theweek.com/articles/562004/su... • http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpol... • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06... • http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinio... • http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8... • http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/w... • http://www.latimes.com/local/politica... • https://www.flickr.com/photos/jstephe... • http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/22/... • http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06... • http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politic... • GET MORE BUZZFEED: • www.buzzfeed.com • www.buzzfeed.com/video • www.buzzfeed.com/videoteam • / buzzfeedvideo • / buzzfeedyellow • / buzzfeedblue • / buzzfeedviolet • / buzzfeed • BUZZFEED VIDEO • BuzzFeed is the world's first true social news organization. Featuring tasty, short, fun, inspiring, funny, interesting videos from the BuzzFeed. /BuzzFeedVideo is BuzzFeed's original YouTube Channel, with a focus on producing great short-form BuzzFeed videos for YouTube (and the world!). BuzzFeed Video will entertain, educate, spark conversation, inspire and delight. Subscribe to BuzzFeedVideo today and check us out at http://buzzfeed.com

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