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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Legislators put the Confederate emblem on the upper left corner of the Mississippi flag in 1894, as whites were squelching political power that African Americans gained after the Civil War.

Legislators adopted Mississippi's state flag and its the Confederate image in 1894, nearly three decades after the end of the Civil War. Mississippians voted nearly two-to-one in 2001 to keep the ...

Mississippi has made it official ... In the years since the Civil War, Georgia’s flag has undergone several changes. Yet, it still looks very, very much like the flag of the Confederacy ...

Several districts in the Mississippi Delta, too, and in other pockets of the state took down the flag with its Civil War iconography, electing to fly only the American flag. Most of these ...

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.

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 ...

(AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town ... of U.S. Army uniforms from the Civil War — placed American flags on 13 graves where a group ...

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.