The Mississippi Supreme Court found in 2000 that when the state updated its laws in 1906, portions dealing with the flag were not included. That meant the banner lacked official status.

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 ...

The flag was adopted in 1895, the 30th anniversary of the Civil War. The same legislative session saw lawmakers pass state holidays for the birthdays of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and ...

Mississippi was the only state whose flag contained the Confederate battle flag. Lawmakers adopted it nearly three decades after the Civil War.

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.

Like the old Mississippi flag, much of the Confederate symbolism in public was put up decades after the end of the Civil War, at a time when whites had political power and the Jim Crow laws were ...

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 ...

The Mississippi state flag that features a Confederate battle emblem ... The armies of the Confederacy fought in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 to entrench slavery — they wanted to ensure 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 ...

The Mississippi Legislature could vote this weekend to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

Mississippi’s flag has included the Confederate emblem – a blue cross with 13 stars over a red background – since 1894. Critics of the state flag say it’s racist, while others believe it ...

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 South lost ...