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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Ah, the flag. The Mississippi State flag ... When Tyler Cleveland's story about the ground-breaking of Mississippi's new museums, including a civil rights museum, went up at jfp.ms/museums ...

Mississippi, the last U.S. state with the Confederate battle emblem on its flag, is considering a compromise: two state flags, one with the emblem and one without. Greg Snowden, Republican house ...

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.

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 ...

Mississippi lawmakers voted to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design ...