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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial ... Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia ...

(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 ...