Beginning in the late nineteenth century, however, the Confederate battle flag took on more political and ideological meaning, as southern whites clawed their way back to power after Reconstruction and began to systematically disenfranchise African Americans with Jim Crow laws. Most notably, it was flown regularly in the 1920s and 1930s, alongside the American flag, by the second incarnation of the KKK at parades and rallies.42 It could also be seen regularly at University of Mississippi football games beginning in the late 1930s.
