South Carolina Confederate Flag Will Be in Museum

The Confederate flag removed from South Carolina State House grounds in 2015 is soon to be displayed again – but this time, in a museum.

It will be placed in the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia, museum director Allen Roberson told The State newspaper.

The flag has been in storage in an acid-free box alongside actual Civil War relics, according to the newspaper.

It was taken off state grounds after white supremacist and neo-Nazi Dylann Roof shot dead nine parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015. The flag, which flew at the state capital for decades, is considered a symbol of slavery.

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