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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 ...
Mississippi history is explored through a new exhibit about the flags of Mississippi, on display through Nov. 8 at Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson.
Mississippi: 1861 1865 1894 1996 2001 2021 Mississippi: Missouri: 1913 Missouri: Montana: 1905 1981 Montana: Nebraska: 1963 Nebraska: Nevada: 1905 1915 1929 1991 Nevada: New Hampshire: 1909 1931 New Hampshire: New Jersey: 1896 New Jersey: New Mexico: 1915 1920 New Mexico: New York: 1778 1901 2020 New York: North Carolina: 1861 1885 1991 North ...
A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), ... and the Rebel Flag: Trent Lott and the 2006 Mississippi Senate Race," National Political Science Review July 2009, ...
Mississippi officials held a ceremony Wednesday to retire the former state flag and send it to a history museum, a day after Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law stripping official status from ...
Mississippi's flag had incorporated a version of the Confederate battle flag since 1894.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For the river, see Mississippi River. For other uses, see Mississippi (disambiguation). State in the United States Mississippi State Flag Seal Nickname(s): "The Magnolia State" and "The Hospitality State" Motto(s): Virtute et armis (Latin ...
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 ...