The American, state and University of South Carolina flags fly above the State House on April 7, 2024. Joshua Boucher [email protected] State flags are in the spotlight. South Carolina should ...

However, after the Ordinance of Secession passed Dec. 20, 1860, the Legislature ... and unequivocally say South Carolina in a way that most other state flag elements never have.

The South Carolina House approved taking down the Confederate flag from Capitol grounds early Thursday, a stunning reversal in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860 and raised the ...

In December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede ... black ministers and the NAACP threatened a boycott of the state if the flag didn't come down, and business leaders sued to ...

On December 27, 1860, Major Robert Anderson evacuated ... and humbled before the glorious little State of South Carolina.” “Our flag,” recorded Mary Chesnut, “is flying there.” ...

History met the modern age in the worst way when South Carolina residents got their first look at the proposed state flag. A committee of historians got together to decide on the specifics of the ...

I’m pleased to see the State moving to standardize the official design of South Carolina’s iconic flag,” he tweeted. Scott Malyerck, a political consultant appointed to the flag committee ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina has just two symbols on its 157-year-old state flag — a palmetto tree and a crescent — but no one seems to know what they are supposed to look like. Check out ...

State flags are in the spotlight. South Carolina should capitalize on it. Minnesota, whose governor, Tim Walz, is now the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, has had a ...