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From 1985 to late 2020, the town of Remington, Virginia, had a Confederate flag in its municipal seal. [178] [179] A variation of the seal, Confederate flag included, appeared on their police uniform shoulder patches. [180] [181] The Remington town council voted to remove the Confederate flag from its seal on July 20, 2020. [182]
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has ordered the Confederate flag removed from Virginia state license plates. The flag is displayed on a specialty plate designed for the Sons of ...
(A return to the 1956 flag with the Confederate battle flag, desired by some, was not on the ballot.) Flaggers, as they were soon called, [7] began displaying the Confederate battle flag, or the 1956 Georgia flag which contained it, in 2001. They appeared at political rallies and at public appearances of legislators who had voted for the Barnes ...
Old New Represents Reported Executed Details Ref. The Flag of Mississippi: Jun 30, 2020: Jun 30, 2020: The Mississippi Legislature passed a bill to relinquish the state flag, remove it from public premises within 15 days of the bill's effective date, and redesign it via commission, with the new design omitting the Confederate battle flag and including the phrase "In God We Trust".
After the death of George Floyd in late May, more than 130 Confederate statues and tributes to divisive historical figures have come down in a flurry of protests, acts of vandalism and government ...
The Richmond, Virginia, City Council on Friday decided unanimously to remove four Confederate statues on Monument Avenue. ... the debate over removing Confederate statues has reignited — and the ...
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: The width two-thirds of its length, with the union (now used as the battle flag) to be in width three-fifths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [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."