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.

From 1956 to 2001, Georgia’s state flag was a Confederate battle flag with ... Patterson, a 38-year-old Black man whose art focuses on African American history, is a self-professed “flag ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illinois’ current state flag has remained largely ... were ultimately submitted. Elsewhere, Georgia and Mississippi have both designed new flags that eliminated the use of the Confederate ...

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 ...