A dozen NAACP members from Georgia gathered at the Dodge County Courthouse last week to call for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies on the courthouse grounds. A handful of counties in Georgia allows the Confederate flag to fly over government properties. John Battle -- president of the Dodge County chapter of the NAACP-- spoke with GPB’s Leah Fleming and told her he’s been fighting for years to remove the flag.

GPB Macon’s Michael Caputo sought another view on the removal of the Confederate flag - this from the spokesman for Georgia’s Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Dan Coleman.

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