Mississippians take Confederate flag fight to US Capitol
By Tyler Carter | tcarter@al.com
on June 14, 2016 at 7:25 PM
updated June 14, 2016 at 7:36 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Flag Day brought over 100 Mississippians to the nation's capital on Tuesday to rally and encourage lawmakers in Washington to order Mississippi to remove and discontinue the flight of the 1894 Mississippi state flag bearing Confederate insignia from flying over federal and public property.
Congressmen such as Bennie Thompson and Hakeem Jeffries, state representative Kathy Sykes, local civic leaders and their congregations, actress and native Mississippian Aunjanue Ellis, and scholar, author, and Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson were on hand to present speeches to the audience at the capitol on Tuesday. Students from colleges such as Tougaloo and Jackson State also made the trip to Washington ...
... "We had congressmen from Mississippi, California, and New York to address the audience, along with music and singing, so overall, it was a great day. We had a boat load of people to travel from Mississippi from cities such as Hattiesburg, Magee, Jackson, and Grenada came to support, so we were pleased in the turnout" ...
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