South Carolina takes down the Confederate flag
In a historic moment for South Carolina, the South, and the nation as a whole, the Confederate battle flag was taken off of State House grounds on Friday morning.
Amid a largely cheering crowd, the flag was removed from atop a 30-foot pole at 10 a.m. after state lawmakers passed a bill calling for its removal. The stars-and-bars flag was then folded per custom and escorted toward a nearby museum.
The legislation was a reaction to the June 17 mass killing of nine African-Americans at a historically significant black church in Charleston. Dylann Roof, the man accused of carrying out the massacre, allegedly yelled racist epithets during the shooting and had posed in photos with the Confederate flag.
Photos: Charleston church shooting
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