By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that ...

A construction crew prepares to remove a monument of Robert E. Lee, the leading general in the Confederate Army, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., May 19, 2017. A construction crew prepares to remove ...

"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s," MSNBC analyst Joy Reid said on NBC’s Meet The Press, Aug. 13, 2017.

Confederate symbols have not always been a part of American or ... For several decades after the Civil War, the Confederate battle emblem was rarely displayed — typically only during tributes to ...

But Confederate symbols, such as the Confederate flag and statues of leaders of the Confederacy during the Civil War, have often been the source of controversy for their perceived racial ties.

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Even for war reenactors, the Confederate flag belongs in the past. Many perceive the flag’s removal as an affront to history, a reduction of the sacrifices made by Confederate soldiers.

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

Events of recent weeks have caused me reflect upon my thoughts and feelings about iconic Civil War statues and the Confederate flag. To be honest, I was content to accept these symbols as a part ...

In the recent battles over Civil War iconography, supporters of Confederate monuments, statues and flags are fighting back. After the city council in Charlottesville, Va. voted 3-2 in February to ...

More than 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces or renamed ... He also contended that many soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War were buried in unmarked graves and ...

A major catalyst in the run up to the deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., was the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. As the nation reeled from the violence ...