Confederate Flag

Confederate Cause
The Confederacy was based primarily on racism, and had little to do with the idea of an overpowering federal government.

''"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition." ''-Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, 1861

Civil Rights Era
The Confederate battle flag nearly disappeared between the end of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.