Confederate Flag to be Removed from Outside Louisiana Courthouse

SHREVEPORT, La.–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2011.  A Confederate flag flying outside a Louisiana courthouse will be removed today, six months after the American Civil Liberties Union argued to the state’s highest court that its presence prevents the death penalty from being fairly administered.

Caddo Parish commissioners voted 11-1 late Thursday to take down the flag, which was raised outside the Caddo Parish Courthouse in 1951 as an act of resistance to the civic and civil rights advances…