That's until her daughter failed a Black History presentation in which she had portrayed her mom, the Black Betsy Ross, as designer of her town's flag. The family was living in New Jersey at the time.

There is a scene in Stan Freberg’s classic 1961 comedy album, a spoof on early American history, in which George Washington criticizes Betsy Ross’s prototype of a new national flag.

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We celebrate your 235 years of independence by flying the patriotic symbol of our freedom: The Star Spangled Banner, Old Glory, The Grand Old Flag. We all learned in grade school that Betsy Ross ...

It's never been confirmed whether Betsy Ross was the person who sewed the first American flag, though she's widely credited with the task. Her former home, where she would have sewn the first ...