Civil rights group ends state boycott

A LEADING civil rights group has passed a resolution lifting its 15-year economic boycott of South Carolina, after that state took down a Confederate battle flag flying near its statehouse.

The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) approved a measure at its national convention in Philadelphia to end the boycott of tourism and other economic activity.

The boycott began in 2000 over the flying of the Confederate flag atop South Carolina’s statehouse dome and continued after it was moved to a flagpole nearby.

The flag’s removal comes weeks after the shooting deaths of nine people in a black church.