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TexasTowelie

(116,803 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 01:56 AM Sep 2020

Why a Confederate flag still flies at Alabama courthouse

About 50 miles southeast of the courthouse in downtown Huntsville, the site of ongoing protests and debate about the 115-year-old Confederate monument, is another Alabama courthouse with another Confederate monument.

And, next to it, a flagpole hoisting the Confederate flag next to a flagpole with the American flag.

The Confederate flag and monument are outside the Marshall County Courthouse on Emmett Street in downtown Albertville – the county’s largest city, though with a small-town population of almost 22,000 people.

And it’s become a new epicenter of protests, albeit on a smaller scale from what has been seen in the state’s largest cities.

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2020/09/why-a-confederate-flag-still-flies-at-alabama-courthouse.html

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