In late June, as many people across the United States took a renewed look at the nation’s history of racism, legislators in Mississippi voted yea on House Bill 1796, replacing the state flag.

Mississippi became the last state to remove the Confederate battle flag from its state flag. It was a moment of reckoning for the Lost Cause mythology about the Civil War that dominated much of ...

the Confederate flag or the rebel flag. It never represented the Confederate States of America in any official capacity. The Confederate battle flag was added to the Mississippi state flag 29 ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem. The removal of the flag marks the latest Confederate ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill Tuesday abandoning the state’s flag and stripping the Confederate battle flag symbol from it, capping a remarkable turnaround on a banner that had ...

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its own very tumultuous history with its own flag -- especially since 1956 ...

South Carolina isn't the only state that has an issue with the Confederate flag. In the aftermath of last week's massacre in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, much of the ...

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated ...

State leaders call for Confederate flag and symbols to be removed. — -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds there in ...

Here's a look at the history of the flag's presence in the state capital: 1938 - The Confederate flag is raised in the South Carolina House chambers. 1956 - The flag is raised in the Senate.