The Confederate Flag will be raised at the South Carolina State House in Columbia on Tuesday.
The red, white, and blue banner, a controversial symbol of the slave-holding Old South under the Confederacy, will fly for one day only as part of a ceremony marking the third anniversary of its permanent removal.
Members of the South Carolina Secessionist Party, a nonprofit Charleston-based group, will raise the rebel banner on a temporary pole in front of the capital steps on Gervais Street at 10 a.m. ET, The State newspaper reports.
The party has been permitted to annually raise the flag for a brief time near the Confederate soldiers' monument, where it had been displayed until 2015.
"We refuse to stand by while the politically correct attempt to banish our forebears into a dark corner of history they choose to label 'Slavery and Treason.' The War for Southern Independence was just that and should be remembered as such," the group states on its website.
The flag was yanked following the murders of nine African American parishioners by a white supremacist at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015. Among those who argued for the removal were President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and Jeb Bush.
That July, then-Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., signed a bill to remove the flag on the statehouse grounds following a vote by House lawmakers to get rid of it.
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