Debate broke out over the meaning of the Gadsden flag after a young boy was booted from class for displaying it. AP. At the time, the image of a rattlesnake was a Colonial-era meme representing ...

First Amendment. 12-Year-Old Boy Removed From School Over 'Don't Tread on Me' Patch "The Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of the American revolution," says Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

A Colorado teacher kicked a student (above) out of the classroom for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. Twitter / @cboyack. The flag was first used by the US’s first naval commander-in ...

The Gadsden flag was designed in 1775 by Christopher Gadsden, a delegate to the Continental Congress and later brigadier general, "as a nod" to Franklin's cartoon, according to The Washington Post.

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In response to a school in his state removing a boy from class for displaying a Gadsden flag, Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., called the flag a "proud symbol of the American [R]evolution." ...

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis called the Gadsden flag 'a proud symbol of the American revolution' after a a Colorado student was told to remove a patch of the "Don't Tread on Me" flag from his backpack.

The term “Gadsden flag” was trending on X earlier on Tuesday as a video spread of a school administrator explaining to a mother and her son that her son could not return to class unless he ...

But Gadsden’s flag took on new life on Nov. 8, 1860, when the Young Men’s Southern Rights Club in Savannah spread a banner across the Nathanael Greene Monument in Johnson Square.

In 2021, the Gadsden flag was an enduring image of the pro-Trump Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. That recent history has put the flag at the center of numerous debates and disputes, including in Colorado.

When the mother responded that the Gadsden flag was a symbol of the Revolutionary War against Britain and not the Confederacy, the administrator responded, “I am here to enforce the policy that ...