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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 ...
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.
"Flags from Mississippi" features 20 flags made of different fabrics, with some even made by hand. The largest flag in the exhibit is a focal point for visitors. It is the flag that flew over the ...
Media in category "Flags of cities in Mississippi" The following 108 files are in this category, out of 108 total. Flag of Algoma, Mississippi.png 360 × 216; 17 KB.
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 ...
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 ...
The 2001 Mississippi flag referendum was a legislatively referred state statute appearing on an April 17, 2001 special election ballot, an election held specifically for this referendum. [1] Voters were asked to choose between two propositions relating to the Flag of Mississippi.
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 ...