JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - On July 1, 2020, the old state flag flew for the final time above the Mississippi State Capitol.

The state flag of Mississippi flies at the Governor's Mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, on Friday, April 26, 2019. Rogelio V. Solis / AP ...

The Mississippi state flag bearing a Confederate emblem was lowered outside the State Capitol in Jackson late last month. State legislators had voted to retire it over the weekend.

Even though Mississippi is the last state to remove the design of the confederate battle flag from its modern iteration, there are five other state flags that arguably recall Confederate symbols ...

Mississippi on Tuesday voted to replace its state flag, which had been the last one in the U.S. to include an image of the Confederate themed battle flag.

Mississippi Keeps Its State Flag. Confederate Symbol Wins in Landslide. April 17, 2001 More than ...

Mississippi artist Laurin Stennis has designed and proposed a new state flag. Her grandfather, U.S. Sen. John Stennis , famously opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a ...

A person waves a small Mississippi state flag while driving past the Governor's Mansion in Jackson in April 2020. Rogelio V. Solis / AP ...

Until now, the only flag of my home state that I would display are scraps, barely holding together, lying on the shelf next to me right now. This remnant of the Mississippi flag was a gift from a ...

The Mississippi state flag is currently the only state flag that features the Confederate battle flag. The Legislature adopted it in 1894, nearly three decades after the end of the Civil War.

One of the magnolia designs also incorporates the Mississippi River. The nine-member flag commission on Tuesday modified three finalists slightly to include 21 stars in a circle — 20 ...