Mississippi lawmakers have voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Mississippi lawmakers have voted to remove the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Mississippi’s House and Senate voted in succession on Sunday afternoon to retire the flag, each chamber drawing broad bipartisan support for the historic decision.
Republican Governor Tate Reeves has said he will sign the bill, and the state flag would lose its official status as soon as he signs the measure.
He did not immediately signal when the signing would take place.
The state had faced mounting pressure to change its flag during the past month amid international protests against racial injustice in the United States.
