Mississippi State removes state flag with Confederate emblem

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By Ron Maxey of The Commercial Appeal
Updated: 1:18 p.m.

Mississippi State University is joining most of the state's other institutions of higher learning in lowering Mississippi's controversial state flag, at least on many areas of the Starkville campus.

The flag, opposed by many because of its inclusion of the Confederate battle emblem, has quietly come down after MSU President Mark Keenum approved requests from the deans of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, according to The Reflector, the campus newspaper. Larger American flags will replace the state flags ...

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/regional/mississippi-state-removes-state-flag-with-confederate-emblem-3b4dd5e4-fbee-7ba7-e053-0100007f8178-391759371.html

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1. Another university furls Confederate-themed Mississippi flag

Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 1:56 pm
Updated: 3:21 pm, Tue Aug 30, 2016.
Associated Press

... University spokesman Sid Salter said Tuesday that President Mark Keenum approved deans' plans to remove the flag from four locations on the Starkville campus. Salter said ... MSU removed Mississippi flags from athletic arenas "several" years ago ...

Salter said Tuesday that Keenum "has been outspoken in expressing his heartfelt personal support for flag change and has maintained an open dialogue with those representing diverse points of view on the question of the state flag." Salter said individual deans have "flexibility" in seeking changes to their academic units ...

Salter said Mississippi's flag remains part of a display of the flags of all 50 states and other nations in the university's main cafeteria ...

http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/national/article_f599570e-be77-55d5-ace7-7bceb75e15fc.html

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2. Confederate flag lowered at 7 of 8 public universities in Mississippi

By The Associated Press
UPDATED 2:50 PM CDT Aug 30, 2016

... Delta State University is the only public Mississippi university still flying the flag.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/confederate-flag-lowered-at-7-of-8-public-universities-in-mississippi/41437332

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4. And that's an HBCU (nt)

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5. Not exactly. DSU opened as a whites-only teachers college in the mid-1920s.

From the history pages at the DSU website:

1967 First African-American student, Shirley Antoinette Washington, enrolls at Delta State

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6. D'oh! Thanks, I was thinking of Alcorn State (nt)

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3. Great news -