South Carolina, the first state to secede from the union, dispatched with a lasting symbol of the Civil War on Thursday as Gov. Nikki R. Haley signed a law removing the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the State House.
The flag, which flies in front of the graceful 19th-century capitol building here, is set to come down at 10 a.m. Friday.
Ms. Haley, a Republican, signed the bill in a capitol building surrounded by cheering lawmakers. She used nine pens to be given to the families of the nine victims of the Charleston church shooting on June 17, describing them as “nine amazing people that forever changed South Carolina’s history.”
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