BREAKING: Mississippi governor sign bills to remove Confederate emblem from state flag.
Gov. Tate Reeves says he will sign a bill that was approved by Mississippi legislators to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag.Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is set to sign a bill to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag"in the coming days," his office told ABC News on Monday.
This June 25, 2020, file photo shows a Mississippi state flag flying outside the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators embedded it there a generation after the South lost the Civil War. Mississippi's House and Senate voted in succession Sunday, June 28, 2020, to retire the flag, with broad bipartisan support. Republican Gov.
On Saturday, Reeves had said he would sign the bill if the legislature passed it. That afternoon, the state House and state Senate passed measures allowing for a vote on changing the flag. In this May 4, 2020, file photo, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is shown in Jackson, Miss., during his daily update on the state's response to COVID-19.On Sunday afternoon, the state House voted 91-23 to remove the emblem. The state Senate passed the bill in a 37-14 vote.
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