Black Backer of Confederate Flag was Anomaly in Mississippi
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Anthony Hervey was an anomaly — a black man who draped himself in the Confederate battle flag and publicly declared his loyalty to the Lost Cause of the secessionist states.
The 49-year-old Hervey died Sunday when the sport utility vehicle he was driving flipped into a ditch beside Mississippi Highway 6 near Oxford. He and another black Confederate supporter, Arlene Barnum of Stuart, Oklahoma, were returning home after speaking Saturday at a Confederate event in Birmingham, Alabama.
Barnum survived and told The Associated Press that Hervey lost control of her vehicle after they were chased by a car carrying four or five black men.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol is interviewing witnesses and reconstructing the crash. Patrol spokesman Johnny Poulos says he doesn't know when findings will be released.
(Story by: Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press)
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