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Before 1861, Mississippi lacked a flag. When the State Convention at the Capitol in Jackson declared its secession from the United States ("the Union") on January 9, 1861, [19] near the start of the American Civil War, spectators in the balcony handed a Bonnie Blue flag down to the state convention delegates on the convention floor, [20] and one was raised over the state capitol building in ...
A new Mississippi state flag design was chosen on Wednesday, two months after state legislators voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem. An appointed state commission voted Wednesday 8 to 1 ...
Mississippi hoisted a new state flag without the Confederate battle emblem on Monday, just over six months after legislators retired the last state banner in the U.S. that included the divisive ...
Mississippi voters will decide whether to accept a new state flag with a magnolia to replace an old one legislators retired under pressure because it included the Confederate battle emblem that ...
The 2020 Mississippi flag referendum was a legislatively referred state statute appearing on the November 3, 2020 general election ballot in Mississippi.Voters were asked whether the design proposed by the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag, which does not contain the Confederate battle flag and includes the words "In God We Trust", should be adopted as the new official flag of ...
The following is a list of state symbols of the U.S. state of Mississippi, as defined by state statutes in Title 1, Section 3 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 and listed in the Mississippi Official & Statistical Register. [1] [2]
Thirty years after the Confederacy fell, John Marshall Stone, then the governor of Mississippi and a former Confederate officer, signed a law adopting the state's new flag. It was made official in ...
Mississippi's House and Senate voted in succession Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, with broad bipartisan support.