Attempts made through Ole Miss to reach band director David Willson for comment were unsuccessful. The decision to stop playing “Dixie,” which served as the Confederate battle anthem during ...

Per Mississippi Today, Ole Miss' marching band, The Pride of the South, will no longer play the song "Dixie" or any variation of it during game days. According to Alex McDaniel of the Oxford Eagle ...

Attempts made through Ole Miss to reach band director David Willson for comment were unsuccessful. The decision to stop playing Dixie, which served as the Confederate’s battle anthem ...

"Dixie" was one of the anthems for the Confederacy during the ... OXFORD, Miss. — A tradition of Ole Miss is ending, according to the Associate Athletics Director Kyle Campbell who sent this statement ...

The Ole Miss origin story is an open secret ... they worry because the school has defended traditions like Colonel Reb and “Dixie” in the past, only to relent under pressure, said Howie ...

Marching bands playing Confederate songs does not stop with Ole Miss. The playing of "Dixie" was a staple for many years in colleges that were outside of the SEC, such as The Citadel, the ...

The truth about Ole Miss is that it is a great school ... When the school got rid of “From Dixie with Love” from the band’s playlist in 2009, the Ku Klux Klan showed up.