Committee: Remove Confederate battle flag from Florida Senate seal

News Service of Florida
2:44 PM, Oct 8, 2015

... The Senate Rules Committee unanimously voted to change the seal and eliminate the rebel battle flag ...

Democratic State Sen. Arthenia Joyner requested in June that the committee consider whether the seal should be changed.

Joyner, who was arrested multiple times during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, says history will remember the Confederacy and the battle flag whether or not it is in the official Senate seal.

"I can remember it without seeing it on my lapel every day. I mean, it's reminiscent of a painful period. It's time for healing, and I felt it was necessary to remove it," Joyner said ...

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