PHILADELPHIA (AP) - In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 stars hangs over a ...

Remember: The Declaration of Independence didn’t apply to Black people when it was signed in ... “The Juneteenth flags represent the history and freedom [of] the American slaves and their ...

PHILADELPHIA — In the bedroom of the Betsy Ross House, a reconstruction of where the upholsterer worked on her most famous commission, a long flag with a circle of 13 ...

The date commemorates the adoption of the American flag's design, as well as the symbolism and history behind it ... after which President Harry S. Truman signed it into law.

In 1931 President Hoover signed the Public Law that officially ... Eisenhower was the first president to serve under the 50-star American flag after it was officially adopted July 4, 1960.

The same flag was used when the Declaration of Independence was signed to give a flag ... as a time to honor the American spirit, to celebrate our history and the foundational values we strive ...

There’s a long history of American flag-flipping in political protest, too. At an anti-slavery rally on July 4, 1854, in Massachusetts, abolitionist speakers William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner ...