Driving out to Royse, Texas to support the protest Monday night, May 12, 2019.

The people in Royse, Texas have asked for our help. I have been sharing their event to Dallas Facebook groups.

This is the event on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2634188006655825/

Facebook has some videos of what the contraversy is about. A student decided to go to school wearing a Confederate battle flag as a cape.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1983418798539308/permalink/2316017671946084/

This is a group that is not happy with the Confederate flag wearing in the school.
https://www.facebook.com/smashdatopicbreakingnews/videos/kid-runs-through-royse-city-high-school-with-a-confederate-flag-as-a-cape/2357430191152900/

Here are some news articles.

https://thegrio.com/2019/05/03/texas-school-district-confederate-flag-racism-royse-city/

https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/local/parents-demand-action-after-new-videos-reveal-student-parading-around-school-wearing-confederate-flag/287-20323180-58ad-4f39-a00d-3f0f7a996c59

https://www.wfaa.com/video/news/local/parents-demand-action-after-new-videos-reveal-student-parading-around-school-wearing-confederate-flag/287-20323180-58ad-4f39-a00d-3f0f7a996c59

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/royse-city-just-took-a-step-back-100-years-students-parents-want-answers-after-student-wears-confederate-flag-to-school/287-a09ccb63-d36b-4da5-9596-5746c991ff48

The city is named after Garrett Burgess Griffin Royse. He was commonly known as Byrd Royse.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjr15

https://books.google.com/books?id=yaSqQg_gKSoC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=garrett+royse+confederate+%22veteran%22&source=bl&ots=nsX7dV-T6Q&sig=ACfU3U3VkNSxHLsiXNkEyA2mcXM84nk_pw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8hYLUwJfiAhUDjq0KHeQBDNIQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=garrett%20royse%20confederate%20%22veteran%22&f=false

The baseball team there is named after Confederate Veteran Garrett Burgess Griffin Royse.

https://ballparkdigest.com/2017/05/12/royse-city-griffins-branding-unveiled/

Dallas Jaycees cary giant Confederate flag down Commerce street in 1964.

I am going to put in this blog local elements of neo-Confederacy in Dallas history.

This was the original blog posting.

https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2018/02/dallas-jaycees-carry-giant-confederate.html#.XDn-R1w2qiM

Note the time is 1:24 for the scene.

Neo-Confederate often like to go one that it was some fringe elements that "mis-used" the flag.

Here we see the Jaycees carrying the flag as a protest against possible civil rights legislation.

This is the link to the video so you can watch it in full.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062768/m1/

It is about the sit-ins at the Piccadilly restaurant in Dallas, Texas in 1964.

This is the link to the story. https://blogs.library.unt.edu/yesterdays-news/2018/02/19/piccadilly/

The Confederate flag wasn't misrepresented by a few fringe groups. It was understood as representing white supremacy by mainstream southern society.