Instead, the first Confederate flag had three thick stripes ... This new flag was a bit more similar to the US national flag. The vertical red bar was replaced by a blue one.

The Confederate flag was first raised atop the State House in 1961 ... He then led a boycott, for years urging national groups to stay away from the state and asking tourists not to come either.

Lonnie Randolph’s lifelong fight against racism was motivated by injustices he saw all around him while growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, including being barred from Columbia’s whites-only public ...