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H.K. Edgerton, Asheville’s black Confederate flag proponent, to present lecture Aug. 27 in Tenn.

Jason Sandford August 13, 2010

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Here’s an interesting tidbit from historicsullivan.com. The site is Sullivan County, Tenn.’s, website for its Department of Archives and Tourism.

It refers to Asheville resident H.K. Edgerton as a credible source of historical information regarding the history of the Confederate flag, as well as the relationships between black and white Southerners of the Civil War era. “He has worked tirelessy to expose the many myths of Civil War history and setting the record straight regarding black roles in the history of the South.” It notes that Edgerton serves as chairman of the board of advisors emeritus of the Southern Legal Resource Centerin Black Mountain.

Wow. Edgerton’s really got them fooled.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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4 Comments

JimmyJam August 22, 2010

Wow what scam artist!
HK gets paid good money to pull off this nosense.
Officicial records of the CONfederacy such as the articles of sucession and the CONfederate constitution despute and prooves that 99.99999% of this guys revsionist statements are pure lies.

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Adryana August 19, 2010

Here's another link to the story "Appropriation of Cultures". It's the second story on the podcast. If you look for it later than this week you'll have to look through NPR's podcast archives of selected shorts, but you can also find the story in printed version in a collection.

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911210

I echo… way to represent and educate Mr. E.

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Sons of Liberty August 18, 2010

Adryana tried to listen to you link but it had been removed. Go old HK fighting the good fight — you go HK!

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Adryana August 14, 2010

I thought of Mr. Edgerton this morning while I listened to a piece on WCQS' selected shorts entitled "The Appropriation of Cultures" written by Percival Everett and read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson which you can listen to here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4384472/the_appropriation_of_cultures_percival_everett/ or here: http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/shorts_radio

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