Aldermen receive request to remove state flag (MS)
September 16, 2015
By Daniel Brunty
The Choctaw Plaindealer
The Ackerman Board of Aldermen met with residents calling for the removal of the Mississippi state flag from the town’s public buildings ...
More than half a dozen other Mississippi cities have removed the flag since the Charleston killings, including the state capitol of Jackson. In July, Starkville aldermen voted 4-3 to lower the flag from city-owned properties.
McCoy informed the aldermen that the NAACP Branch, as well as other residents of Ackerman, request the removal of the flag containing the confederate emblem be removed from all town buildings.
“The Confederate emblem is not representative of some concerned citizens of Ackerman,” McCoy said. “The Confederate emblem does not represent most citizens because it represents racism, segregation, discrimination, and slavery” ...
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