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 ...

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.

Here are some things to know about the current flag and the two flags that it replaced. The 1956 flag: The Georgia state flag was changed Feb. 13, 1956, incorporating a Confederate battle emblem ...

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.

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 ...

the Third National Confederate Flag and the Georgia state flag of 1860. Weaver, whose great-great-great-grandfather and -uncle were privates in the Georgia infantry, said the monument is there to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As governor of Georgia, I successfully pushed for ... that would allow Georgians to vote to bring back the state flag with the Confederate battle emblem. The tactic worked. Republicans won the ...