Mississippi Old Flag
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Mississippi old flag. The nine member committee voted to recommend a design with the state flower now known as the in god we trust flag. Kendrick would run for a seat in the united states congress and a notice. Voters in mississippi have chosen a new state flag replacing a 126 year old banner that incorporated a version of the confederate battle flag.
2 2020 by the mississippi state flag commission flies outside the old state capitol museum in downtown jackson miss. The magnolia flower centered banner chosen wednesday sept. On february 23 1894 the pascagoula democrat star in its state news boiled down section listed news from across the state alerting readers to items like public resignations and appointments legislative actions warnings of floods and new businesses.
Ap mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase in god we trust with voters approving the design tuesday. Wlbt mississippis first black supreme court justice reuben anderson shared his support of the new state flag on wednesday. Mississippi residents who voted in a 2001 statewide election chose to keep the old flag.
It replaces a confederate themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injusticethe magnolia flag was the only design on the general election ballot and voters were asked to say. Mississippis new state flag will feature the magnolia flower after the state in a historic move this summer parted with its decades old banner that included a confederate battle emblem. Tate reeves who advocated for the public referendum said removing or changing the old flag would not end longstanding divides.
The commission was arranged after the states old flag was retired in june. When the state convention at the capitol in jackson declared its secession from the united states union on january 9 1861 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 and one was raised over the state. Judge anderson also served as chair of the commission to redesign the mississippi state flag.
The magnolia flower centered banner chosen wednesday sept. But all of the states public universities and many local governments had stopped flying it. History first flag 18611865 before 1861 mississippi lacked a flag.
2 2020 by the mississippi state flag commission flies outside the old state capitol museum in downtown jackson miss.