"The NAACP will forever fight"

The fight against and for the flag as a symbol did not end in the 1990’s and after. The most renowned organization that eagerly rejected the use of the Confederate flag and any other symbols of slavery is the  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It originates back to The Niagara Movement led by W.E.B. Du Bois. NAACP was founded in 1908 and has been standing up against racism since then. Nowadays they are advocating the rights of students, the youth’s more too.

Of course, Confederate heritage advocates blame NAACP for the misinterpretation of the Confederate flag as they were openly criticizing it decade by decade. “They considered the battle flag and other Confederate symbols ’offensive’ and ’reminders of slavery’. More tangibly, activists regarded flags displayed on public property as symptomatic of attitudes and policies that are potentially threatening to the rights and well-being of African-American citizens.”

Defenders of the flag say that symbols like the flag are part of their history, part of history. “Houston Post editor Lynn Ashby concluded: ‘Taking down a flag, in this instance, is rather like rewriting history, pretending something didn’t happen when we all know it did’.” As the battle flag can be seen displayed throughout the South in restaurants, in cemeteries, on private houses, etc., we might think that NAACP has not reached any of its goals. But NAACP has managed to convince politicians, other organizations to stand by their aims and their work is fruitful.
“The line between individual expression and state approval is not always clear”.