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Here are some things to know about the current flag and the two flags that it replaced. The 1956 flag: The Georgia state flag was changed Feb. 13, 1956, incorporating a Confederate battle emblem ...
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 ...
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 ...
In late June, as many people across the United States took a renewed look at the nation’s history of racism, legislators in Mississippi voted yea on House Bill 1796, replacing the state flag.
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 ...
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 ...
The Georgia Dome flag, American flag and the Georgia state flag fly outside the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on Nov. 23, 2013. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images Americans across the nation have criticized ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...