Confederate flag on civil rights hero's grave gets widow's pardon
The 93-year-old widow of a slain civil rights activist in Mississippi said Wednesday that she forgives the person who draped a Confederate battle flag over her husband's gravesite.
Ellie Dahmer said her family was told the black woman who left the flag Tuesday did it as a protest to teach a grandchild about the state's history, and the bad things the flag represents.
"We were told that she was telling her grandson about that flag — about how much hate was in that Confederate flag," Dahmer told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
Vernon Dahmer is buried in south Mississippi's Jones County. He was killed in January 1966 when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed his family's home in nearby Forrest County because he helped other black people register to vote.
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