South Carolina began celebrating Confederate Memorial Day by giving state workers a holiday under an arrangement in 2000 that also allowed South Carolina to shed its status as the last state in ...

Texas, for example, celebrates Confederate Heroes Day on Jan. 19. South Carolina began celebrating Confederate Memorial Day by giving state workers a holiday under an arrangement in 2000 that also ...

It's been called the "third rail" of South Carolina politics, but suddenly it's as if someone just cut off the electricity. Now, the Confederate flag may be taken down.

The Confederate battle flag no longer flies at South Carolina's Statehouse, ... South Carolina’s Confederate flag is gone, but others remain. Jul 11, 2015, 12:06 AM.

Yesterday, the South Carolina state legislature decided to remove the Confederate flag. Debate started on the morning of July 6. Though Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee ...

The shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston this week has revived demands that South Carolina stop flying the Confederate flag on the state house grounds, an issue that still divides ...

Members of the 11th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry fire their muskets after playing taps at the end of the Confederate Memorial Day service at the Beaufort National Cemetery in 2010.

Other than South Carolina, only a few other states still commemorate dead Confederate soldiers with office closures. They include Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Texas though the names and dates ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The Confederate battle flag no longer flies at South Carolina's Statehouse, now relegated to a room filled with other relics of the state's secession. Other vestiges of the Civil ...