Group mounts Confederate flags around downtown Charleston to protest CofC speaker
Holding true to their promise to not stay silent about Bree Newsome's College of Charleston visit, the S.C. Secessionist Party mounted Confederate flags on top of five different buildings around downtown Charleston Sunday.
Shortly after the racially-driven murders at Emanuel AME Church in June 2015, Newsome climbed up the flagpole in front of the Statehouse and pulled down the Confederate flag. She was arrested the same day and charged with defacing a monument.
Newsome is scheduled to speak at an event called "Tearing Hatred from the Sky" at the college Wednesday.
Last week, James Bessenger, chairman of the state Secessionist Party, asked the college to cancel the event claiming that her presence would encourage others to deface Confederate monuments.
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