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 ...

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 Mississippi flag in 1894, as whites were squelching political power that African Americans had gained after the Civil War.

It had seven stars to represent the breakaway states: South Carolina, Mississippi ... After the Civil War ended, the battle flag turned up here and there only occasionally – at events to ...

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.

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 ...