Rebel flag on civil rights hero’s grave gets widow’s pardon

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The 93-year-old widow of a slain civil rights activist in Mississippi says she forgives the person who draped a Confederate battle flag over her husband’s gravesite.
Ellie Dahmer (DAY’-mur) tells The Associated Press on Wednesday that her family was told that the black woman who left the flag Tuesday did it to protest “how much hate was in that Confederate flag.”
Vernon Dahmer is buried in south Mississippi’s Jones County. He died in Janu