re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

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Yep. The battle flag wasn't flown above the Capitol building until the 60's. The first time in 1961 on the centennial of the Civil War. It flew for one day and came down. It was put back up there in 1963 the day Robert Kennedy came and met with George Wallace and remained up there until 1993, when it was moved to the monument location.

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A confederate flag was flown a few times before the 1960s, but those were associated with CSA veteran's events. By the 1930s, the CSA veterans had all died off and it didn't come back until the Wallace/Kennedy pissing match.

I've seen a black and white photo from either the teens or maybe 1920s of some type of veterans gathering that was looking up Dexter Avenue and there was a Stars and Bars (which isn't the flag most people think of as the confederate flag) flying.