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A list of 2015 state holidays on Georgia’s website proclaims Robert E. Lee’s birthday on January 19, but notes it will be observed on November 27. It also lists Confederate Memorial Day on ...
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 ...
The engraved Georgia memorial is America's largest Confederate monument. Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, often called “the granddaddy of all Confederate monuments,” is once again at the ...
One such vandalism was the catalyst for the removal of the Confederate monument that stood outside the Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville. The stone monument, inscribed with “1861-1865 ...
In 2019, Georgia passed a law that prohibits anyone, including local officials, from removing, defacing or changing Confederate monuments. Soon after, some local governments erected contextual ...
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.
Georgia is set to roll out a redesigned license plate that still features the Confederate battle flag emblem, months after halting the sales of the state-sponsored specialty tag in the wake of the ...
COLUMBUS, Ga.COLUMBUS, Ga. — A Confederate heritage group is suing a Georgia city over the removal of rebel flags and flagpoles from a historic cemetery where more than 500 Confederate soldiers ...
Confederate Memorial Day will be celebrated in multiple states on Monday. What is it and will Georgia celebrate it? Here's what we know: Confederate Memorial Day was created in Georgia on April 26 ...
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