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Stop the sale of Confederate flags at Levi Coffin Days

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Laurie Thomas
4 years ago

Allowing the sale of Confederate flags at an event to honor Levi Coffin makes the Lion's Club and it's members look illiterate and foolish!

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Nikki Tousley
4 years ago

The display of this flag is counter to everything Coffin stood for

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Elaine Troth
4 years ago

I am honored to stand in the spirit of Friends who were people of action.

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Susan Lee Barton
4 years ago

Having the Confederate flag during Levi Coffin Days is dishonoring the history which Fountain City is supposedly celebrating.

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Christine Newlon
4 years ago

This flag is not a pretty souvenir. It is a symbol of support for slavery.

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Paul Buckley
4 years ago

God will bless you for this.

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Lillian Henegar
4 years ago

Formerly of Bloomington Friends Meeting, I am currently a member of Cowichan Valley Friends Meeting on Vancouver Island, on the unceded territory of the Quw'utsun' peoples. I am shocked that the Confederate Flag is sold during the Levi Coffin Festival. It shows how short have fallen in educating about the Civil War, the Abolitionist movement, and white supremacy/Jim Crow. Jesus!

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Chris Busby
4 years ago

Can't imagine why they're their to begin with. That's what he was helping them flee!!! Dumb idea

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Epperson Sky
4 years ago

This should not have to be a petition. It should have been dealt more long before this.

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Cheryl thomas
4 years ago

This goes beyond racism, you are selling historical artifacts. I grew up in Fountain City. There is nothing in that town of historical significance except Levi Coffin House and everything connected to it.

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Saundra Jackson
4 years ago

It is so wrong that a festival named for Levi Coffin should allow a vendor to sell Confederate Flags!

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Ian murray
4 years ago

The Union forever

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Andrew Garrison
4 years ago Featured

I am signing this petition as presiding clerk for Oxford Friends Meeting in Oxford, Ohio. We are in unity that the display of this segregationist flag dishonors the memory of Levi and Catherine Coffin.

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Bill Coffin · petition starter
4 years ago

Hi Stephen. Please contact me at [email protected].

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Barbara Barker Jenkins
4 years ago

Totally out of keeping with the values and actions of the Coffins.

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Melissa Wallace
4 years ago

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Dawnn Adams
4 years ago

First Friends Meeting New Castle

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Patience Schenck
4 years ago Featured

How dare anyone sell the symbol of white supremacy at the home of a leading abolitionist. Absurd and hurtful! P. Schenck, Annapolis Friends Meeting.

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Michael Crook
4 years ago

Do not dishonor the memory of those who elevated our humanity.

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Bob Henry
4 years ago Featured

As a Quaker Minister and one who stands against hate, I do not believe the confederate flag has any place at a festival honoring a Levi Coffin - one who stood up for antiracist and the freedom of slaves in our country.