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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. ... It is the flag that flew over the state ...
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 ...
The history of the state of Mississippi extends back to ... (or Old Biloxi) in 1699. [3] ... and the Rebel Flag: Trent Lott and the 2006 Mississippi Senate Race ...
The state flag, which prominently features the so-called Confederate battle flag, had flown above the state Capitol building in Jackson for 126 years. Former Mississippi flag lowered at State ...
With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov ...
Most U.S. state flags were designed and adopted between 1893 and World War I. [1] The most recently adopted state flag is that of Minnesota, adopted on May 11, 2024, while the most recently adopted territorial flag is that of the Northern Mariana Islands, adopted on July 1, 1985. The flag of the District of Columbia was adopted in
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