WWII SILK FLORIDA STATE FLAG; ANNIN US HOUSE OF REP FLAG 1945 SOUTHERN MANIFESTO

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WWII SILK FLORIDA STATE FLAG; ANNIN & CO NY, U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT FLAG 1945
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WW2 Florida State Flag *
ANNIN & Co. NY *
GSA, Government Services Administration,
3ft x 5ft US Government Contract Flag
US CONGRESSIONAL FLAG *
SILK
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This flag comes with a 24” x 28” Paul Rogers campaign sign and a rolled Black & White Office Photo, printed on heavy card stock.
This flag is guaranteed to be silk. This being said, it’s extremely rare to find a Silk Annin flag, period. Adding that this is a Southern Flag from a popular state like Florida is extremely rare. Adding the U.S. history associated with the owners makes this a 9/10 rarity. Segregation was a tough time in US history, and this flag is linked to the Democrats response to Brown v the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas 1954. Paul Rogers was one of the signatories to the Southern Manifesto written in 1955.
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ou can see that Federal Art-Glo, & Colonial Art-Glo tags from the same period are the exact same look as the tag on this flag showing that Annin manufactured this flag not using the Rayon flag labels or the other 2 trade names that Annin had available at the time. Later in the mid 1950’s, Annin used Federal Art-Glo to cover their contracts with the federal government.
Annin stopped manufacturing SILK flags in lieu of Rayon flags under the trade name of Art-Glo by 1953. In the very beginning you would see Federal Art-Glo as top of the line Rayon flags & Colonial Art-Glo flags were the bottom rung Rayon Flag, yet they were still expensive.
The Nyl-Glo trade name was also purchased with the Colonial flag company. You use to be able to purchase Rayon State Flags under the Colonial Art-Glo trade name. Now you can only purchase Colonial Nyl-Glo, nylon flags for a small premium.
For your consideration is this ANNIN & CO NY, SILK Florida Flag.
This flag was manufactured circa 1945 and was used in the office of US Rep Dwight L. Rogers of Florida from January 3, 1945 – December 1, 1954. This flag was then used by his son US Rep Paul Rogers of Florida from January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1967.
US Rep Dwight Rogers was in office during the last year of World War 2, the dropping of the Nuclear Bomb, Korean War and McCarthy Era.
US Rep Paul Rogers was one of the signatories of the Southern Manifesto.
This flag is a TRUE piece of U.S. history.
This Annin flag is truly rare being that it’s SILK.
This flag measures 3ft by 5ft.
This flag is in great shape with some sun bleaching and 2 minor splits in the silk.
This flag was used by U.S. Rep. Dwight L. Rogers & U.S. Rep Paul D. Rogers as their United States Capital Building office flag from 1945 through 1979.
U.S. House of Representative Dwight L. Rogers (D), Florida. He was elected to the 79th Congressional District in 1944 and was sworn in January 3, 1945. He served until he passed away December 1, 1954.
His son Paul D. Rogers was elected as a Democrat to the 84th Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.
U.S. Representative Paul D. Rogers (D), Florida
He was elected as a Democrat to the 84th Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Dwight L. Rogers. Rogers served for and was reelected to the eleven succeeding congresses, for 24 years from January 4, 1955, to January 3, 1979. He chose not to run for reelection to the 96th Congress. While a member of the House, Rogers served as chair of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment from 1971 to 1979. Nicknamed "Mr. Health," he was a key representative behind the adoption of the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Medical Device Amendments of 1976, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Emergency Medical Service Act, the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977 and the Clean Air Act of 1970.
He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Rogers voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, but voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Rogers was a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson. He was also active in the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Friends of the National Library of Medicine, and the National Leadership Coalition on Health Care (now the National Coalition on Health Care).
Mark Foley has said that a meeting with Rogers when Foley was three years old inspired him to go into politics. After suffering from lung cancer and undergoing an operation, Rogers died of the disease in Washington D.C. on October 13, 2008, at a rehabilitation hospital.
U.S. Representative Dwight L. Rogers (D), Florida
Dwight Laing Rogers (August 17, 1886 – December 1, 1954) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Born near Reidsville, Georgia, Rogers attended the public schools and Locust Grove Institute at Locust Grove, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1909 and from the law department of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1910. He was admitted to the bar the same year and began commenced practice in Ocilla, Georgia. He moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1925 and continued the practice of law.
He served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1930 to 1938, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1933.
Rogers was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his death.
He died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1954, and was interred in Lauderdale Memorial Park. He was the father of Paul G. Rogers.
Southern Manifesto
The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the 84th United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. The manifesto was signed by 101 congressmen (99 Southern Democrats and two Republicans) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The document was drafted to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the Jim Crow laws that characterized the Southern United States at the time.
Massive resistance to federal rules that ordered school integration was already being practiced across the South, and was not caused by the Manifesto. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas had worked behind the scenes to tone down the original harsh draft. The final version did not pledge to nullify the 'Brown' decision nor did it support extralegal resistance to desegregation. Instead, it was mostly a states' rights attack against the judicial branch for overstepping its role.
The Southern Manifesto accused the Supreme Court of "clear abuse of judicial power" and promised to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution and to prevent the use of force in its implementation." It suggested that the Tenth Amendment should limit the reach of the Supreme Court on such issues. Senators led the opposition, with Strom Thurmond writing the initial draft and Richard Russell the final version. The manifesto was signed by 19 senators and 82 representatives, including the entire Congressional delegations of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. All of the signatories were Southern Democrats from former Confederate states except two Virginia Republicans, Joel Broyhill and Richard Poff.
Three former Confederate state Senators, all of the former border state Senators, and both Senators from Oklahoma – which was not a state during the Civil War – refused to sign:
Allen Frear and John J. Williams of Delaware,
former Senate Democratic Caucus Leader Alben Barkley and Senate Majority Whip Earle Clements of Kentucky
James Glenn Beall and John Marshall Butler of Maryland,
Stuart Symington and Thomas Hennings of Missouri,
Robert Kerr and Mike Monroney of Oklahoma,
Al Gore Sr. and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
William Laird and Matthew Neely of West Virginia,
and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
In the House of Representative, these Congresspersons refused to sign:
Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn of Texas,
16 of the 21 Democrats in the Texas House delegation, including future Speaker Jim Wright,
all 5 Democrats in the Oklahoma delegation, including House Majority Whip Carl Albert,
3 of the 7 Democrats in the Tennessee delegation,
3 of the 11 Democrats in the North Carolina delegation,
Dante Fascell of Florida
all of the 26 border state House Democrats in Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Their opposition earned them the enmity of their colleagues for a time.