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, when ...

The actual Confederate flag is almost identical to the current state flag of Georgia, and that’s not ... the Southern states decided to secede in 1861, their Provisional Congress established ...

It originated in late 1861 as the fighting flag of the ... but generally without the controversy attached to the battle flag. Georgia's current state flag, adopted after the state removed the ...

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 ...

That distinction belongs to the Confederacy’s first national flag created in 1861 which sported a ... today was not deployed until 1863. Georgia created a state flag using the original ...

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.