Claim: Says William T. Thompson, the designer of the Confederate flag, said, "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race" and "As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of the superior race."
Fact-check: Viral image about the Confederate flag confuses some history
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Ciara O'Rourke
Date published: 2019-04-11T00:00:00