Protesters demand to take down Confederate flag

Columbia: Crowds of protesters and two prominent Republicans on Sunday were called for removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina Statehouse following a massacre by a white gunman at a historically black church.

On Saturday, a substantial crowd rallied outside the Statehouse, calling on officials to take down the flag originally flown by the pro-slavery South during the 1861-65 American Civil War.  “We must put that flag in its place as a part of history,” said Sarah Leverette, a 95-year-old civil rights activist. Bringing it down means the people killed at the EAM church have not died in vain, she said.