Disenfranchisement colored Confederate statue debate in city
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) ” As a little girl growing up in this segregated eastern port city, Bettie Parker’s parents told her, “When you see the Confederate flag on a car, run.”Six decades later, Parker, this city’s first black female mayor, remembers the warning every time she passes the same flag carved into the 30-foot-tall monument stationed next to the county courthouse.Following the racially-toned violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere two years ago, Parker […]
