when the Confederate battle emblem was added to it in response to contentions over civil rights. Before 1879, according to the Georgia State Senate, the only state flag was an unofficial one that ...

Rather than comply with a request to remove Confederate flags from public property, a Civil War museum in Georgia ... of the building — next to the Georgia state flag and American flag ...

With that, theirs became the last state ... and flag-related conundrums faded from combat. The battle flag too largely disappeared in the decades after the end of the Civil War—but, like ...

Last year, Georgia released a specialty license place that features the Confederate battle flag. The state-issued license tag enraged civil rights advocates, who said it was a racially charged ...

Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. that includes ... who was visiting a huge carving of Confederate Civil War generals at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park with her husband ...

"One reason for doing this might have been the upcoming centennial of the Civil War ... state flag, Davis says, lawmakers were signaling their resistance to integration. Nonetheless, the Georgia ...

Georgia added the Stars and Bars to its state flag in 1956 as an overt symbol ... “The main question of the Civil War was whose rights are to be protected and who is entitled to civil rights ...

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia ... confederate emblem was added to the state's flag in 1956 as a response to the growing civil rights movement.

A Georgia Civil War museum is closing its doors after the county asked it to remove a Confederate Flag from public land in front of the building. The Nash Farm Battlefield Museum alleged in a May ...