Up until earlier this month, the majority of Mississippians favored keeping the flag, which prominently features the battle flag ... who fought for Mississippi in the Civil War.

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 ...

(AP) — Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century ... generation after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi's House and Senate voted ...

Mississippi has a 38% Black population — and the last state flag with the emblem that ... African Americans had gained after the Civil War. The battle emblem is a red field topped by a blue ...

The state flag, which features ... been at the heart of a conflict Mississippi has grappled with for generations: how to view a legacy that traces to the Civil War. The legislation mandates ...

Mississippi has the last state flag that includes the Confederate battle emblem – a red field ... that African Americans gained after the Civil War. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in ...

Mississippi ... put the Confederate battle emblem on the upper-left corner of the Mississippi flag in 1894 as a reaction to the gains made by African-Americans 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 ...

He made up heroic Civil War stories for ... When I moved back to Mississippi in 2015 with my husband, I saw them again, angry white men flying Confederate battle flags, waving signs that read ...

Mississippi has the last state flag that includes the Confederate battle emblem - a red field ... that African Americans gained after the Civil War. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in 2000 ...

Mississippi has a 38% Black population — and the last state flag with the emblem that ... African Americans had gained after the Civil War. The battle emblem is a red field topped by a blue ...