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AUGUSTA - Carrying Confederate flags, Southern Heritage groups from Georgia and South Carolina denounce the Mayor of Augusta and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

They lined Reynolds Street, in downtown Augusta, Thursday morning in protest.

The groups are angry that Mayor Young took down a flag on the Riverwalk with the Confederate banner on it.

The Mayor did so at the request of the Augusta chapter of the NAACP.

Representatives from the Heritage Preservation Association, the Georgia and South Carolina League of the South, and Sons of Confederate Veterans took part in the peaceful demonstration.

 

AUGUSTA - A legal group representing the protestors takes their case to the mayor’s office.

Roger McCredie and H. K. Edgerton from the Southern Legal Resource Center went to the Municpal Building Thursday. The two men made the trip from Black Mountain, North Carolina to deliver a letter to Mayor Bob Young.

But the mayor was not in his office. McCredie says while it was disappointing, it was worth the effort.

“It is short and sweet, a non–confrontational letter. It does let the mayor know the Southern Legal Resource Center has been retained by some folks here in Augusta to look into the entire matter of the removal of the flags.”

McCredie says the group is asking the mayor and county commissioners to put the flag back on Riverwalk.