The NAACP is now trying to get Mississippi to remove the Confederate flag symbol from its flag, after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the state house grounds last week.

"The state of Mississippi now remains the sole state in our country to embrace a symbol of war, hate and a failed attempt to perpetuate its right to slavery, into its flag while regarding it as 'heritage,' despite inflicting degradation upon its citizen descendants of slaves," the civil rights organization said in a resolution it adopted Tuesday at its national convention.

The resolution doesn't call for a boycott, as was the case with South Carolina, but the organization would like to see a new flag.

Mississippi has had the flag since 1894 and as recently as 2001, voters approved keeping the flag by a 2-1 margin.

The President of the Moss Point-Jackson County chapter NAACP said on Tuesday the flag "represents racial oppression, racial bigotry, hatred, things like that" to the non-white residents of the state.

"If Mississippi is going to unite and be one Mississippi — not a white Mississippi and a black Mississippi, but one Mississippi — that flag needs to be changed to remove that divisive symbolism of the Confederacy and replace it with a unifying symbol that can be revered by everyone," Clark said.