Norfolk Group Wants Confederate Flag Gone (VA)

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NORFOLK, Va. (CN) - A civil rights group in Virginia pettioned the Norfolk City Council to abolish public displays of the Confederate flag in city courtrooms, and remove a Confederate monument from Main Street.

The United Front for Justice and its director of civil rights, Roy Perry-Bey, asked the Norfolk mayor and city council to remove the monument because according to them, "the Confederate flag and monument are a symbol of hate" ...

On August 10, Perry-Bey followed delivered a petition to the Norfolk city council requesting that the Confederate Flag Memorial currently located on Main Street be removed, and replaced with a monument of Army Sargent William Harvey Carney, the first African American soldier to earn the Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor.

Carney received the honor for saving the American flag from Confederate capture and planting it on the parapet despite being wounded several times during assault on Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863 ...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/08/12/norfolk-group-wants-confederate-flag-gone.htm

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1. letter written to Norfolk Council

http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/08/12/UNITED%20FRONT%20FOR%20JUSTICE%20SGT%20%20CARNEY%202.pdf

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