state flags

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/1/2020
  

  Mississippi Changing Its Flag Isn't the End of Confederate Symbols in State Flags

  "For the first third of our nation's history, from about 1777 to 1861, it was almost unheard of for individual Americans to fly the flag," says historian Marc Leepson.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  A State Wrestles With Its Imagery: A Sword Looming Over a Native American

  The debate in Massachusetts comes at a time of reckoning over the nation’s history.

• SOURCE: Fox News
  3-29-13
  

  NC removing Confederate flag from capitol

  RALEIGH, N.C. –  A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns.The decision was announced Friday evening, hours after the Associated Press published a story about the flag, which officials said was part of an historical display intended to replicate how the antebellum building appeared in 1863. The flag had been planned to hang in the House chamber until April 2015, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of federal troops in Raleigh."This is a temporary exhibit in an historic site, but I've learned the governor's administration is going to use the old House chamber as working space," Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz said Friday night. "Given that information, this display will end this weekend rather than April of 2015."...