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The first Confederate flag and five other nations that have had sovereignty over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States) appear above one of the side entrances to the Capitol. They also appear on the reverse of the Seal of Texas, which is the subject of a floor mosaic in the Capitol Extension.
The Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sought to have a specialty license plate issued in the state of Texas with an image of the Confederate Battle Flag. The request was denied prompting the group to sue, claiming that denying a specialty plate was a First Amendment violation. [1]
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" has a color scheme similar to that of the most common Battle Flag design, but is rectangular, not square. The "Confederate Flag" is a highly recognizable symbol of the South in the United States today and continues to be a controversial icon.
It was a sea of symbolism that day from American flags to Nazi imagery, Confederate flags, the Gadsden flag. Laura Scofield is a vexillologist, a fancy term for someone who studies flags.
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Confederate Memorial Day and Lee's birthday were enshrined in Florida law in 1895, 30 years after the end of the Civil War. Jefferson Davis Day was added in 1905. Jefferson Davis Day was added in ...
The first shows the Confederate battle flag and the second portrays Clinton and his then Vice President Al Gore in the gray uniforms of the Confederacy. They were up for bidding on eBay and listed ...