Confederate Painting in Mississippi Capitol Must Go, Senator Says
A painting of two generals raising a Confederate flag remains memorialized in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda’s dome. A senator wants it removed.
A painting of two generals raising a Confederate flag remains memorialized in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda’s dome. A senator wants it removed.
Former Mississippi art teacher and “Justice for Emmett Till” advocate Sonny Strauss shares his journey of digging into his own ancestry, where he learned that his ancestors were some of the first wealthy, white, slave-owning individuals in Virginia.
“As these (Confederate) monuments were erected, the vote increased for members of the then-racist Democratic Party, and people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas,” Alexander N. Taylor writes.
Almost three years after both houses of the Mississippi Legislature overwhelmingly voted to retire the old Confederate-themed state flag, one state senator is calling for its return. “That flag, a lot of our people fought and died under that flag,” said Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany.
State offices remained open in Mississippi during the Juneteenth federal holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, almost two months after officials closed state offices to celebrate the Confederate Memorial Day state holiday on April 24.
I believe this ‘expansion’ is a racial assault, but if you are in the metro area, it will affect you, too, regardless of your race,” Jennifer Riley Collins writes.
“Many people had been working tirelessly on the removal of that statue for some time, and I did not consult with them,” Borenstein writes.
Dr. Daniel Edney told the Mississippi Free Press that his letters in defense of the Confederacy represented the perspective of a “young man with … very little experience of the real world, and a very limited knowledge of how others felt,” and that “over the last 20 to 25 years, God has placed me on a different path.”
For the third year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is declaring the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month, keeping a tradition alive that his predecessors began 29 years ago.
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
125 S. Congress Street #1324
Jackson, MS 39201
info@mississippifreepress.org
tips@mississippifreepress.org
events@mississippifreepress.org
601-362-6121