Last Confederate Flag to Fly Over Statehouse Now in Museum

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The last Confederate flag to fly at the South Carolina Statehouse has quietly been put on display at a museum, ending a three-year saga over what to do with the rebel banner, which was removed after nine black church members were killed in a racist attack on a Charleston church.

On Nov. 26, Confederate Relic Room staff put the nylon flag into a $1,400 viewing case that hangs between two offices amid a display of other historical South Carolina flags, museum Executive Director Allen Roberson said after a budget presentation to lawmakers on Tuesday.

"I'm sure we won't satisfy everybody. But it is up," Robeson said.

The display of the flag itself was a political compromise, hurriedly reached in the wee hours of the morning when it appeared removing the banner from the Statehouse was going to fall a few votes short. The agreement that lawmakers approved called for "appropriate, permanent and public display" of the flag, the last to fly at the Capitol near a monument to Confederate soldiers.