Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate ... the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white ...

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

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 ...

Mississippi was the only state whose flag contained the Confederate battle flag. Lawmakers adopted it nearly three decades after the Civil War. "Whether you are proud of this step or angry with ...

A Mississippi commission has picked a state flag to replace of the old flag ... in public was put up decades after the end of the Civil War, at a time when whites had political power and the ...

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 wouldn’t adopt its state flag until almost 30 years after the end of the Civil War, in 1894. But there’s no real historical record that explains why lawmakers adopted a flag that ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers could vote this weekend to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent ...

Mississippi Governor ... The removal of the flag, a long-simmering source of controversy in one of the breakaway Southern states that fought in the American Civil War of the 1860s, follows the ...

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 ...

(AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the ...