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Confederate symbol to be removed from Mississippi flag

Parliamentarians decided Sunday by 91 votes to 23, that a new flag no longer bearing the banner of Confederation must be adopted by the state.

The Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate voted on Sunday to remove a Confederate symbol from the flag of that American state, which is the last to retain this reminder of the days of slavery. The move comes as a wave of anti-racist protests across the United States has rekindled controversy over the persistence of symbols evoking slavery.

Parliamentarians from Mississippi, a southern state in the United States, decided on Sunday that a new flag no longer bearing the Confederation standard should be adopted.

A new flag in November

The current flag features the standard – red background, blue cross diagonally with small white stars – which represented the Southern States, opposed to the abolition of slavery, during the Civil War (1861-1865).

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