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North Carolina did not have an official [[state flag]] until the North Carolinian state constitutional convention of 1861. During this convention, delegates voted to join the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. They established a committee to come up with a flag. This flag was ratified by the convention on June 22, 1861. The flag consisted of a red field with a white star in the center. Inscribed above the star was the date May 20, 1775, the controversial date of the [[Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence]]. Inscribed below the star in a semi-circular form was the date May 20, 1861, which was the date North Carolina declared it had seceded from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. The flag also contained two bars of equal width, one in blue and one in white. The design is similar to one suggested by Raleigh artist William G. Browne.<ref name="NCPedia" />
During the American Civil War, [[secessionist]] leaders spoke of the Mecklenburg Declaration with reverence, attempting to connect it with the state's joining the Confederacy. Confederate leader [[Jefferson Davis]] spoke to a [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]] crowd in September 1864, saying "people of this section were the first to defy [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] authority and declare themselves free" encouraging them to continue backing the Confederacy's civil war effort.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historiccharlott0000unse |title=Historic Charlotte County : an illustrated history |date=2011 |publisher=Historical Pub. Network |isbn=9781935377337 |editor=Houck, Douglas |edition=1st |location=San Antonio, TX |pages=34 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ingraham, Christopher Ingraham |date=Jun 21, 2015 |title=How the Confederacy lives on in the flags of seven Southern states |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/21/how-the-confederacy-lives-on-in-the-flags-of-seven-southern-states/ |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
=== Flag Statute of 1885 ===
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