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.

Thanks to the Atlanta Falcons and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, 304 Georgia high schools received grants to either create a new girls flag football program, or help existing programs for the ...

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 ...

But there’s another state banner that still has insignia dating to the South’s secession. Georgia’s flag features a Stars and Bars pattern that mirrors the first national flag of the ...

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.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s family is marking the King holiday with a new push to change Georgia's state flag. Opponents have long argued the flag's Confederate battle emblem is racist. NPR's Kathy ...

A new state flag has been raised at Georgia's state capitol building, replacing a banner that gave prominence to the Confederate battle emblem. Whether for right or wrong, the flag has been used by ...

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 ...

Nicole Goodkind is a political reporter with a focus on Congress. She previously worked as a reporter for Yahoo Finance, where she covered fiscal and monetary policy. Before that she wrote about ...

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.