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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 ...
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 ...
Georgia's first, unofficial, flag was blue with the state's coat of arms in the center in yellow. The coat of arms is the three-columned arch containing the state motto of "wisdom, justice ...
MACON, Ga. — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has ordered flags at all state buildings and grounds be flown at half staff on Thursday as they recognize law enforcement personnel who died in the line of duty ...
MARIETTA, Ga. — Georgia mostly resolved its Confederate battle flag issues when the state changed the state flag in 2001. But the issue still brews in some circles. Dan Coleman keeps a replica ...
The Democratic candidate to be Georgia’s next governor explained her presence Tuesday at a 1992 protest that included a burning of the state flag as part of her opposition to Confederate symbolism.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order on Saturday, ordering all flags flying outside of State of Georgia buildings to be flown at half-staff on Monday. But it is not because of the ...
Nobody in Georgia needs to be told that a flag is ... the seat of government 24 hours a day just like the American and state flags, as specified by an ordinance approved unanimously by the city ...
The U.S. Flag Code mandates it following a president’s death, and Georgia intends to keep the state flags lowered in memory of President Jimmy Carter. President Biden honored President Jimmy ...