Mississippi votes to remove Confederate battle emblem from state flag Commission to design new flag that cannot include Confederate symbols and must feature words ‘In God We Trust’ By EMILY ...

Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators embedded it there a generation after the South lost the Civil War.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the state legislature voted to change the state flag. the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag narrowed the choices to five final designs.After a ...

Mississippi was the only state to use the Confederate battle emblem, which may be the Confederacy’s most recognizable symbol. Further Reading Mississippi’s new magnolia flag starting to fly ...

Mississippi has the last state flag with the Confederate battle emblem – a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars. The flag has been divisive for generations.

State lawmakers agreed in June to remove the old flag, which had been in place for 126 years, after pressure from Mississippians who argued that the Confederate emblem is a symbol of racism.

Mississippi has a 38 per cent Black population — and the last state flag that ... Voters will be asked to approve the new design in the Nov. 3 election. If they reject it, the commission will ...

Voters will be asked to approve the new design in the November 3 election. If they reject it, the commission will set a different ... the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi state flag, ...

Mississippi state residents will vote on the new design this November. If the design is rejected, the commission will design a new flag to be voted on a year later. 03:10.

Mississippi lawmakers have agreed to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s banner, retiring a more than 100-year-old vestige of the Civil War and spectre of white supremacy in the ...

Voters will be asked to approve the new design in the Nov. 3 election. If they reject it, the commission will set a different design using the same guidelines, and that would be sent to voters later.