President Harry Truman and NC governor Kerr Scott in motorcade at Smith Reynolds Airport for the Wake Forest College groundbreaking held on 15 October 1951. Wake Forest president Harold Tribble in front seat. Man in foreground is waving at their car while holding a Confederate flag behind his back.
Negative labeled "J. D. Fitz, Confederate Flag." Photograph was apparently staged by Morton and Fitz to illustrate Truman's unpopularity in the South. Other negatives in the collection made at different locations also depict this theme, one of which appeared in the magazine LIFE (3 December 1951, page 107.)