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The History Hour: The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

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The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

19/06/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

One African-American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.

Taking down the Confederate Flag, one American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church, East Germany’s iconic Trabant car and the man behind Mindfulness.

In June 2015 an American anti-racist activist climbed a flagpole on the South Carolina state house grounds to take down the Confederate flag. The protest followed the killing of 9 black people at a historic Charleston church by a white supremacist who was pictured holding the flag. We discuss the 
history of this divisive symbol of America's racist past. Also how life in the Chinese countryside has been dramatically changed by 40 years of migration to the cities. Plus, from the 1980s, a British TV event that shifted attitudes towards victims of rape, East Germany’s iconic Trabant car and the man behind Mindfulness.



Photo Bree Newsome taking down the Confederate flag at the State House in Columbia, SC, on Saturday 27th June 2015.  Credit Adam Anderson / Reuters.

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