Saturday lesson: RACE BAITING 101

The books the maker of this video is recommending in this video are PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn and THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander.

A Great Video clip for all on the 4th of July

Confederate Flag: No Honor in Fighting for an Unjust Cause

Story of America with Eric Byler and Annabel Park in Columbia, South Carolina

Bill Starr has a South Carolina lineage that predates the Revolution, and ancestors who fought in the Civil War for the Confederate States of America. Hear why he wants the flag to come down.

The Confederate battle flag was raised over the South Carolina capitol dome in 1962 as a symbol of defiance of the Civil Rights movement. In 2002, a compromise in the state legislature moved the flag to a Confederate war memorial in front of the dome, with the United States flag and the South Carolina state flag replacing the Confederate flag atop the dome.

In the wake of the June 17, 2015 massacre at the Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, lawmakers including both US Senators and the governor of the state (all Republicans) asked the legislature to vote to remove the flag from state grounds as a symbol of healing, unity and inclusion.

Videography by Eric Byler