COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The Confederate flag has made a temporary return to the front lawn of the South Carolina Statehouse as part of a rally.
Several hundred people attended a rally Sunday by the South Carolina Secessionist Party at the Capitol complex in Columbia.
The event marks the one-year anniversary of the day the Confederate battle flag was furled and sent to a museum.
Using a portable base, the party raised the battle flag on the same spot where it flew on a 30-foot pole beside the Confederate Soldiers Monument. The crowd included people holding their own flags and people clad in Civil War uniforms to represent a Confederate Memorial Honor Guard.
Dozens of counter-protesters showed up, but the groups were kept separate by barriers and law enforcement officers.
