Supreme Court asked to consider Mississippis use of Confederate image
By Robert Barnes
September 10 at 1:24 PM
When Carlos E. Moore became a part-time municipal judge in Clarksdale .. his first order of business was to remove the state flag from his courtroom ...
The state of Mississippi did not bother to file a response to Moore’s Supreme Court petition. But the court last month told the state it wanted to know more, and to file a brief.
"So at least somebody at the Supreme Court does not think it is frivolous," Moore said.
Moore’s petition to the court says that the "message in Mississippi’s flag has always been one of racial hostility and insult." It encourages violence, Moore alleges, and sends a "message to African-American citizens of Mississippi that they are second-class citizens" ...
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I think Arkansas, Alabama off the top of my head elements of their flag were based on the Confederate flag.
Alabama
Though state legislation described the flag of Alabama as being based on the design of St. Andrew's Cross,[48] it has been hypothesized that the crimson saltire of the flag was designed to resemble the blue saltire of the Confederate Battle Flag. The legislation that created the state flag did not specify if the flag was going to be square or rectangular.[49] The authors of a 1917 article in National Geographic expressed their opinion that because the Alabama flag was based on the Battle Flag, it should be square.[50] In 1987, the office of Alabama Attorney General Don Siegelman issued an opinion in which the Battle Flag derivation is repeated, but concluded that the proper shape is rectangular, as it had been depicted numerous times in official publications and reproductions.[51]
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Arkansas
The flag of Arkansas contains a 4 blue stars within a diamond representing the 4 countries that historically controlled the territory, one of these stars represents the Confederate States of America. [53][54]
Florida
The current flag of Florida, adopted by popular referendum in 1900, with minor changes in 1985, contains the St. Andrew's Cross. It is believed that the Cross was added in memory of, and showing support for, the Confederacy.[55][56] The addition of the Cross was proposed by Governor Francis P. Fleming, a former Confederate soldier, who was strongly committed to racial segregation.
Georgia
n 1956 the Georgian state flag was redesigned to incorporate the Confederate battle flag. Following protests over this aspect of the design in the 1990s by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and other groups, efforts began in the Georgia General Assembly to remove the battle flag from the state flag's design. These efforts succeeded in January 2001 when Georgia Governor Roy Barnes introduced a design that, though continuing to depict the Battle Flag, greatly reduced its prominence.
The following year, amidst dwindling demands for the return of the 1956 design ("Battle Flag" version) and lesser opposing demands for the continued use of the new "Barnes'" design, the Georgia General Assembly redesigned the flag yet again; it adopted a "compromise" design using the 13-star First National Flag of the Confederacy (the "Stars and Bars"
, combined with a simplified version of Georgia's state seal placed within the circle of 13 stars on the flag's canton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_flag#Official_usage_in_southern_U.S._states
