Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. Arrow Created with Sketch. Calendar Created with Sketch. Path Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Plus Created with Sketch. Subscribe now to azcentral. The flag we now call the Betsy Ross flag has a circle of 13 five-point stars in a blue patch on the top left corner.
Thirteen alternating red-and-white stripes cut horizontally through the rest of the cloth. The Continental Congress called for such a flag on June 14, The number of stars and stripes represent the 13 original colonies.
In , students waved the Betsy Ross flag and a Trump banner at a high school football game in Michigan, prompting the superintendent to apologize. The local NAACP chapter released a statement saying the flag was "associated with 'racial supremacy' groups. The Betsy Ross flag has been used by many different groups over the years, including extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
He said the association is weak compared to other symbols, though. The anti-government "militia movement" also uses the Betsy Ross flag. Pitcavage said that tie wasn't strong enough for the average person to immediately connect the two. He said there wasn't evidence of Ross being a racist or a slaveholder and he didn't find the flag offensive. While general perception has held Ross was solely responsible for designing the flag, some scholars have suggested she was just one of many seamstresses in Pennsylvania at the time that took part in the project.
The story of the flag's design first became a topic of discussion several years after its creation, when Ross's grandson William J. Canby delivered a document to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in claiming his grandmother was responsible for the flag design, according to the Smithsonian history, The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon. Ross, the daughter of a Quaker carpenter, ran an upholstery shop with her husband in a home they rented in Philadelphia.
The couple was known for making cartridges and flags for the Continental Army, and it was rumored Ross even designed bed hangings for Washington in , according to Pennsylvania's historical organization, Historic Pennsylvania.
Nonetheless, there are no official government records of the flag's creation until June 14, , when the Continental Congress approved the flag "shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, while on a blue field, representing a new constellation," according to the Library of Congress.
Ross' name isn't mentioned in the document, although this may simply be attributable to the biases of the era. While the flag initially featured 13 stars to represent the 13 colonies, the flag has been updated 27 times over the years to include new states added into the union.
The flag presently on display across America was introduced after Hawaii became the 50th state in August
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