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 ...

Kennedy Library Foundation for his successful effort to take down a Georgia state flag that prominently featured the Confederate battle emblem. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

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 lawmakers previously had voted to greatly reduce the rebel cross' presence on the state flag in 2001, changing the state banner for the first time since 1956. The Confederate banner has ...

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 ...

Georgia's state flag is a near copy of the first Confederate national flag. Often called the Stars and Bars, the first flag of the Confederacy featured two red bars separated by one white ...

when a staunchly segregationist General Assembly installed the Confederate battle flag, the St. Andrew's cross, on the official banner. Georgia's first, unofficial, flag was blue with the state's ...

Georgia legislators first dealt with the state's Confederate flag issue in 2001, and settled it by nonbinding referendum in 2003. But some paid for the sin of changing the flag in 2001.

the sharpest of which was the inclusion of the Confederate emblem in the Georgia state flag," read a statement from Abrams's spokeswoman Abigail Collazo. "This conversation was sweeping across ...

At the beginning of the rebellion, many Confederate states adopted ... "Southern Cross" drew criticism, Georgia changed its flag to feature the state seal, though retained a smaller depiction ...

Georgia resolved its fight over a state flag that incorporated the Confederate battle emblem in 2001 — though it cost Gov. Roy Barnes his job. Deal said Tuesday he was grateful that debate was ...