The Confederate battle flag was added to the Mississippi state flag 29 years after the Civil War by a governor who fought in it. It was designed by Sen. E.N. Scudder whose daughter, according to a ...

In 2001, voters decided two to one in a ballot measure to keep the flag as is, many arguing it was a nod to their ancestors who fought for Mississippi in the Civil War. But a recent wave of ...

"The current state flag did not fly over Mississippi during the Civil War, but was a product of Reconstruction Era efforts to turn back the clock on the state’s at that point meager racial ...

He made up heroic Civil War stories for his relatives ... If we take down the current flag, what would fly over our government buildings? Mississippi artist Laurin Stennis has designed and ...

The flag, which features a Confederate emblem, has long served as a reminder of the state’s central role in secession and the Civil War. The Mississippi Legislature adopted the current flag in ...

The design "represents Mississippi’s sense of ... The vote replaced the state’s previous flag, which was implemented in 1894, following the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction.

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

Recent ceremonies, including flag-placing and libation rituals ... during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would ...

Until 2021, the old Mississippi state flag was the only one in America to ... The white supremacist emblem and Civil War glorification was eliminated and replaced after Mississippi Governor ...

A high-grade sword presented by the 3rd Mississippi Infantry ... which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding.

When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag ... the true history of the Civil War—and as the controversy ...