The House vote was 94-20 to take down the flag, which was raised over 50 years ago as a protest by the segregationist state government against the civil rights movement.

“South Carolina can remove the stain from our lives,” said representative Joe Neal, a black Democrat. “I never thought in my lifetime I would see this.”

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