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Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Remove Rebel Emblem from Flag | Afro

By Emily Wagster Pettus The Associated Press Mississippi lawmakers voted June 28 to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Spectators in the Capitol cheered and applauded after the votes in the House []

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