
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 9, 1994                   TAG: 9409150100
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: DANVILLE                                 LENGTH: Short

CONFEDERATE FLAG TO BE FLOWN AGAIN

A City Council vote to return a Confedrate flag to the grounds of a city-owned museum was a step backward that could damage the city's image, civil rights leaders say.

After more than a year of controversy, the City Council voted Tuesday to allow a Confederate heritage advocacy group to put a 7-foot Confederate monument topped with 15-foot flagpole outside the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.

The 7-2 vote split along racial lines, with the two black members, Joyce Glaise and Ruby B. Archie, dissenting.

Louis S. Cobbs, vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the vote is indicative of a larger problem.

"Whatever chain with which you enslave your brother, one end is fastened to you," Cobbs said. "In many ways, you have to stay down to keep your brother down."

The museum building was the last capitol of the Confederacy during the final days of the Civil War.

- Associated Press

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