As the fight for racial equality raged during the Civil Rights era, Southern states began to display the Confederate flag. Georgia put the Confederate symbol on its state flag in the late 1950s.

A day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced they would order flags currently at half-staff in their states in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter to full-staff for ...

Individual states did not establish dates for Confederate Memorial Day until sometime after 1868, when Memorial Day was established by the federal government. Some Southern states observe Robert E.

Flags to be raised to full-staff for Inauguration Day in Florida, other Southern states, Capitol C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida Updated Wed, January 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM UTC ...