The current flag of the Alabama state (the second in Alabama state history) was adopted by Law 383 of the state legislature of Alabama on 16 February 1895:
Alabama State Flag is the red cross of St. Andrew in the white field. The rods that make up the cross should be not less than six inches, and should be diagonal across the flag from side to side. "- (Code 1896, Ã,§3751; Code 1907, Ã,§2058; Code 1923, §2995; Code 1940, T. 55, Ã, §5.)
Cross St. Andreas referred to in law is the diagonal cross, known in vexilology as saltire. Since the bar must be at least six inches wide, a small representation of the Alabama flag does not meet the legal definition.
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On January 11, 1861, the Alabama Secession Convention passed a resolution stipulating an official flag. Designed by some women from Montgomery, the last touch was made by Francis Corra from the city. One side of the flag shows the Goddess of Freedom holding a drawn sword in his right hand; to his left he held a small blue flag with a gold star. Above the gold star appears the text "Alabama" in all uppercase. In an arch above this figure are the words "Independent Now and Forever". The back side of the flag has a cotton mill with a circular rattlesnake. The text "Noli Me Tangere", ("Touch Me Not" in Latin), is placed under a cotton mill. The flag was flown until 10 February 1861, when it was transferred to the Governor's Office after it was damaged by bad weather. It was never flown again.
Flag now
The Alabama flag is currently adopted in 1895. The law was introduced by John WA Sanford Jr. Representative. determined that "[t] he flag of the state of Alabama would be a red cross from St. Andrew in the white field.The bars forming a cross must be not less than six inches, and should be diagonally extended across the flag from side to side." Sanford's father, John WA Sanford, had ordered the 60th Infantry Infantry Regiment during the US Civil War and he modeled his design on the battle flag used by the regiment. The regiment's flag design is a white saltire on a blue square with a circle of white stars that encircle the cross. It has been adopted from the flag of the Hilliard Volunteers from Alabama Volunteers who grew up in 1862 and disbanded after the Battle of Chickamauga with sections of 1 and 3 battalions entering the 60th Alabama Infantry. Flag of the regiment accompanied them until the end of the war and surrendered in Appomattox Courthouse.
The saltire of Alabama's flag resembles most saltire from the Florida flag, which has a heritage in the Spanish Cross of Burgundy. Southern Alabama was originally part of Florida Spain and subsequently West Florida. Although the Alabama adoption of this flag design preceded that of Florida by five years (1895), 1868-1900 the Seal of Florida portrayed a white flag with a red saltire, similar to the current Florida flag or saltire Burgundi, on a steamboat. The Alabama flag is officially the cross of St. Andreas as described in his law, and so does the Burgundy Cross (Spanish: Cruz de BorgoÃÆ'  ± a, Cruz de San Andrà © s ), representing the cross on which St. Andrew was crucified.
It is sometimes believed that the crimson saltire of the Alabama flag is currently designed to resemble a blue grindstone from the Confederate Battle Flag. Many of the battles are square-shaped, and the Alabama flag is sometimes also depicted as a square. The law that created the state flag does not specify that the flag becomes square, however. The authors of the 1917 article at National Geographic expressed their opinion that because the Alabama flag is based on the Battle Flag, it should be square. In 1987, the office of Alabama Attorney General Don Siegelman issued an opinion in which the derivation of the 60th Alabama Battle Flag was indicated, and also concluded that the exact shape is a rectangle, as has been described many times in official publications and reproductions; Nevertheless, the flag is still often described as square, even in official US federal government publications.
Another distant inspiration, but probably the flag brought by Co "F", 7th Alabama Cavalry. The regiment was the only Alabama regiment in the Rucker Brigade, commanded by Colonel Edmund Rucker of Tennessee (then Alabama), who became Birmingham's leading businessman after the war. The Rucker brigade flag utilizes a white background with a red saltire filled with 13 blue/green stars. This flag is awarded to Co "F", 7th Alabama Cavalry by Rucker so they may act as their Color Guard, and are held by the Alabama Department of Archives and History as part of the Civil War Flag Collection in Alabama. But the flag brought by Co F 7th Alabama is not an Alabama flag, it was a flag made for the Rucker Brigade a month before the 7th joining his brigade; The 7th is a color party just after September 24, 1864. The existing bunting flag, in a white and red configuration with 13 blue stars, is not believed to be related to Alabama, but rather to be tied to the Rucker Brigade, as well.
According to historian John M. Coski, the adoption of the Alabama flag coincides with the emergence of Jim Crow's law and segregation, as previous Confederate slave nations, such as Mississippi and Florida, also adopted new state flags based on Confederate design around the same time. when the states institutionalize Jim Crow's segregation law itself:
Flag changes in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida coincide with the passing of the legally segregated Jim Crow segregation throughout the South. Four years before Mississippi put the Confederate battle flag into the flag of his country, his constitutional convention passed the pioneering provisions to 'reform' politics by effectively lifting the lives of most African Americans.
Maps Flag of Alabama
Governor's Flag
The Alabama governor's flag is a variant of the state flag. Above saltire, the flag displays the state symbol. The bottom saltire contains a state military emblem consisting of a cotton plant with a full boll exploded.
See also
- The Florida flag
- The Jersey flag
- Major Alabama State Seal
- Saint Patrick's Saltire
- State of Alabama
- Alabama State Symbol
References
External links
- Alabama State Flag in Alabama Department of Archives & amp; History
- written record of the flag in 1987 by Don Siegelman, Alabama Attorney General
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