The fight to save the Confederate Flag From stadium to court to ballot-box In the Fall of 1997, University of Mississippi Football Coach Tommy Tuberville, under pressure from the Black Caucus, demands that students surrender their Confederate flags and accept minorities. Lebanese Chancellor Robert Khayat sides with the Negroes and begins arresting students, such as Arthur Baker, who object. Daily Mississippian Opinion Editor Blake Aued even rips up a Confederate flag, but Khayat refuses to discipline him. In response, students paint Confederate flags on their bodies, hoist placards of protest and display their flags at the football stadium, in their dorms and on license plates and bumper stickers, anyhow.
Nationalists begin a petition drive and lawsuit in behalf of the flag.
Greg Stewart sues Winter to get the issue on the ballot, forcing Winter to concede to a popular vote. In the Fall of 2000, the United States Supreme Court refuses to hear the Nationalists' case, but the flag goes on the ballot, anyhow, when petitioners and the Legislature intervene. The United States establishes citizenship for the American People from which Indians, slaves and foreigners are excluded. The United States Supreme Court, in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford , rules that Negroes are an inferior race, not entitled to be part of the body politic of the American nation. The United States Supreme Court, in the case of Plessey v Ferguson , rules that the American People cannot be forced, in public places, to associate with Negroes against their will.