protest until black parents finally had enough in 1990 and asked the flag be removed. That's when The New York Times weighed in with an article on student activism echoing the spirit of the 1960s. Everywhere else in the nation, teenagers stood up and fought the good fight...except in Anaheim! Led by student Denise Gay, classmates walked out, not in solidarity with black folk, but because Savanna planned to phase out its hard on for the Confederacy!

"Ms. Gay says the flag embodies school spirit, not anti-black sentiment," the Gray Lady explained, "and she is pleased that her small protest earned her a chance to explain her views to the principal, who she said was sympathetic." Meanwhile other students told the Orange County Register that the Black Student Unionplayoff home game in 1999. That's when us Rebels were set to square off against the Compton High Tarbabes. Both school principals thought it a good time to talk over the offensive emblem painted on the gym walls. Cheerleader-painted posters awkwardly covered Savanna's shameful symbol when visiting black students from Compton High filled the rafters. The Stars and Bars was slowly phased out in the following years.

Johnny Rebel stood tall long after the Confederate flag's fall. The quad statue finally came down in 2009 due to disrepair with JR's face rusted and covered in seagull shit. A last-ditch effort to restore it would have cost $45,000. An art teacher launched an online effort to do just that, with a weak-salsa petition rallying all of 22 signatures in support.