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Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
The Confederate flag is a controversial symbol for many Americans today. A 2011 Pew Research Center poll revealed that 30% of Americans had a "negative reaction" when "they saw the Confederate flag displayed". [46] According to the same poll, 9% of Americans had a positive reaction. A majority (58%) did not react.
The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-565-54109-2. OCLC 30780284. Documentary History of the Flag and Seal of the Confederate States of America, 1861-'65. Compiled by Raphael P. Thian. Washington. 1880.
Description Battle flag of the Confederate States of America (3-5).svg. English: The rectangular (3-5) battle flag of the Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America. Note: The most usual form of the historical Confederate battle flag on land was either square or slightly rectangular (close to square), as in the final Confederate national ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [1] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
File:Flag of the Confederate States (March – May 1861).svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 444 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 178 pixels | 640 × 356 pixels | 1,024 × 569 pixels | 1,280 × 711 pixels | 2,560 × 1,422 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown ...
Summary. Description. Battle flag of the Confederate States of America.svg. Square land battle flag of Confederate States of America. Date. Flag design 1860s, SVG file 2005. Source. This SVG flag includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this flag: Flag of Mississippi (2001–2020).svg.
File:Flag of the Confederate States (1863–1865).svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 400 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 160 pixels | 640 × 320 pixels | 1,024 × 512 pixels | 1,280 × 640 pixels | 2,560 × 1,280 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.