Confederate pomp amid burial of slave's daughter
Posted: October 18, 2014 - 3:30am
In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 photo, members of the N.C. Society of the Order of the Black Rose surround Mattie Rice during a ceremony honoring 10 black men, nine of whom were slaves, who served in the Confederate Army, outside the Old County Courthouse in Monroe, N.C. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When the ashes of Mattie Clyburn Rice, the daughter of a slave, are buried Saturday in her father's grave in the North Carolina...

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