Over the weekend, the national board of directors of the NAACP voted to end a 15-year boycott of South Carolina over the display of the Confederate flag.

"Emergency resolution passed by the NAACP National Board of Directors at #NAACP106, ending the 15 year South Carolina boycott," the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said on its Twitter feed.

The NAACP held it's national convention this past weekend in Philadelphia.

On Friday morning, the state of South Carolina took down the Confederate flag as onlookers shouted "USA, USA!"

The Confederate flag was raised atop the South Carolina State House dome in 1961 as part of centennial commemorations of the American Civil War. Critics said its placement was a sign of opposition by politicians to the black civil rights movement at the time.

Back in 2000, the NAACP announced they would hold an economic boycott of South Carolina over the flag.

In a related matter, the NCAA president Mark Emmert said they would remove the "barriers" to hosting champion-level events in the state since the Confederate flag was removed from the capitol grounds.