ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its own very tumultuous history with its own flag -- especially since 1956, when ...

The actual Confederate flag is almost identical to the current state flag of Georgia, and that’s not ... the Southern states decided to secede in 1861, their Provisional Congress established ...

A segregation-era flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem was changed in 2001 and then again in 2004 amid strong debate and disagreement. Georgia’s official state flag is actually the third ...

Adopted: 2002 From 1956-2001, the Georgia flag contained the state seal on blue ... and is very similar to the flag the state adopted immediately after secession from the Union in 1861. Adopted: 1894 ...

It originated in late 1861 as the fighting flag of the ... but generally without the controversy attached to the battle flag. Georgia's current state flag, adopted after the state removed the ...

According to Leepson, during the especially foggy battle of Manassas in 1861 ... According to a 2000 state Senate report, compiled while Georgia was mulling another flag change, the decision ...

Last week, I and many of my fellow Georgians watched our neighboring state of ... adopt a state flag that prominently featured the Confederate battle emblem. As governor of Georgia, I successfully ...

The Confederate States of America was formed on Feb. 8, 1861 ... with a star for each state belonging to the Confederacy. The design is similar to the current Georgia flag, except the field ...

Like the flag that flew over Georgia before 1956, it will include the state seal on a blue field. Unlike any other Georgia flag, it will have the motto "In God We Trust." Though Franklin's flag ...

Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation for his successful effort to take down a Georgia state flag that prominently featured the Confederate battle emblem.

The 1956 flag: The Georgia state flag was changed Feb. 13, 1956, incorporating a Confederate battle emblem into the design, as a response to the Supreme Court rulings on desegregating schools.