© AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis A participant of a “Save the Mississippi State Flag Rally” holds a Mississippi flag on July 6 as she listens to speakers in Jackson, Miss.

As part of a growing chorus to remove the Confederate battle emblem from Mississippi’s state flag, a group of more than 60 prominent former and current residents took out a full-page advertisement in Jackson’s Clarion-Ledger Sunday calling for the state to strike the symbol. 

The letter was signed by notables like actor Morgan