The United Daughters of the Confederacy had had their way with the Senate in the past. Four times this century the Senate had renewed the patent on their insignia, which includes the seven-starred Confederate flag -- an emotional symbol that continues to divide blacks and whites in the South. But in May the Judiciary Committee decided against renewal. And when Senator Jesse Helms, a proud son of the South, sneaked it in as part of a larger bill, he learned that he wasn't the only one who felt passionately about the Civil War.
The first black woman to sit in the...
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