The flag of the city of Montgomery flies across the street from Montgomery City Hall on Sept. 20, 2024 in Montgomery, Alabama. A high school student has launched a petition to replace the flag, which was adopted in 1952 and includes Confederate symbolism. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)
The American Civil War ended in the 1860s. In the 1950s, the city of Montgomery adopted a flag with Confederate symbolism.
That’s why Jeremiah Treece, a 17-year-old student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, has started a petition to change it.
“One of the things that I’ve been hearing just in general, it [the Confederacy] has a long, debatable history behind it, whether it means, ‘I’m saying it’s the heritage of our country and it means how proud they are to be citizens and to be Americans,’ or if it really is what what it symbolized back then, which was the pro-slavery and a lot of injustice in the city and in the state and just all over the South in general,” he said.
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