The Nationalist Movement is born and wins in the Supreme Court when officials try to ban it. Jackson, Mississippi public schools try to ban students from displaying the Confederate flag in meetings at Forest Hill High School. Nationalists, led by student Joe McNamee and his father, sue the school on the grounds that their constitutional rights have been violated. They win a court order reestablishing the meetings and the flag in the public schools. Chancellor Chet Dillard throws out the case.
Nationalists sue, launch petitions and hold the rousing Stick the Ban Rally on campus.
Students hoist flags on staffs fashioned out of paper and on cardboard, by the thousands. Negroes sue to have the flag removed, but the Mississippi Supreme Court rules that it has no power to do so. Nationalists succeed in having Negro Fred Banks tossed off the case in the Mississippi Supreme Court in which Negroes had been seeking to have the Confederate flag removed from the state flag. The court, again, turns the Negroes down. Richard Geldreich, David Edwards, Arthur Baker and others who Khayat threatens with arrest for displaying the Confederate flag are hailed as heroes.