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Mississippi one of only four states that still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. Why?
State offices throughout Mississippi will be closed ... the Legislature voted to change the state flag in 2020, which previously featured a confederate symbol, to a magnolia flower, he has been ...
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Mississippi Legislature again fails to replace statues of white supremacists in U.S. Capitol
Mississippi remains an outlier for its statues, even among other Southern states. The Magnolia State is currently the only ...
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Report: Mississippi under fire for considering KKK leader and Confederate hero on license plate
Mississippi currently offers a license plate to commemorate the Civil War, and funds from those plates go toward maintaining the state's collection of Confederate battle flags and restoring ...
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Mississippi mayor says a Confederate monument is staying in storage during a lawsuit
weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis and after Mississippi legislators retired the last state flag in the ...
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Two states still honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day. See which ones, why
King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee.