At the time, school pride meant waving a Confederate battle flag. “The climate was like the desert,” says Linnie Liggins Willis, who started at Ole Miss in 1967. She describes a sense of isolation for ...

Blackwell, the Ole Miss law school senior who made them ... Kerciu's painting "America the Beautiful," a six-foot wide canvas of a Confederate battle flag smeared with the slogans of the rioters ...

Now, however, there are signs that Ole Miss is sliding back into its old ... student pulling down the American flag and running the Confederate flag up the University flagpole in its place.

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That year, something new popped up at Ole Miss football games: Confederate battle flags. The band started playing "Dixie." Someone commissioned the largest Rebel flag ever for the band to carry ...

In recent years, "Dixie" has been banned by a number of institutions, including the University of Mississippi because of its ...

A lawsuit filed to appeal a city's decision to relocate a Confederate statue may hinder other towns who want to try and move ...

which now is the university’s primary administration building and has served in the past as a Confederate army hospital and as the headquarters for federal agents during the Ole Miss riot of ...

protect the state’s Confederate heritage. Additionally, the proposal seeks to ‘restrict or define’ Mississippi’s heritage in several areas, including the state flag, nickname, and even ...

The cotton rose, also known as the Confederate rose, is unusual. It blooms out white in the morning and then turns to red ...

1. Sept. 25, 1962 Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy places a phone call to Ross Barnett, the segregationist governor of Mississippi. They've been talking for weeks now. Every day, it's a ...