Mississippians who’d like to display their state flag minus its Confederate imagery can rejoice in a newly approved specialty license plate. The state’s flag has long contained an image of the ...

Mississippi was the last state in the country whose flag, which was adopted in 1894, included the Confederate emblem. Advocates for changing the flag had argued the Confederate insignia was a ...

In fact, when the renowned scholar on all-things Mississippi wrote a detailed history in 2000 of the flags that have flown over the state, he revealed that the 1894 flag now relegated to the ...

STARKVILLE — It has been my experience over some 40 years of writing about public policy in Mississippi ... on clinging to the state’s 1894 Reconstruction Era state flag – which features ...

Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove ... It's not the first time lawmakers have tried to change the state flag, first approved in 1894. However, as other cities worked to remove Confederate ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill in June that removed the racist symbol from the state's flag, which had been in place since 1894. "Tonight, I signed the bill to retire the 1894 ...

In 2001, 66 percent of Mississippi voters chose to keep the existing state flag, which was adopted in 1894. Mississippi state Senator Sally Doty, a Republican who faces a primary election in 45 ...

State lawmakers over the summer voted to take down Mississippi's old flag with its Confederate battle symbol, in use since 1894. Their decision came amid growing pressure from residents as well as ...

Originally designed in 1894, the Mississippi flag came under scrutiny in 2001 during a referendum led by the Mississippi Economic Council, the state’s chamber of commerce, which argued that it ...

The design of the Mississippi state flag has contained in its upper-left corner the same Confederate emblem since 1894. In May 2000, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the law establishing ...

In Mississippi, the state with the nation’s highest percentage ... “The argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself,” Mr. Reeves said in a statement, “and it ...

Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill on Tuesday that removes the racist symbol from the state's flag, which has been in place for 126 years, since 1894. While a final design for the new Mississippi ...