State law requires that all city or county ... Newman, of the Confederate heritage group, noted Atlanta City Hall refused to fly the old Georgia flag from 1993 to 2001. At Bloomingdale City ...

The Georgia Dome flag, American flag and the Georgia state flag fly outside the Georgia Dome in ... Some photos of the 21-year-old white man show him holding a Confederate flag.

They chose Georgia's old flag, the one dating from 1956 ... said no city should fly the state's former flag. "It is past time to take down these relics of hate and these symbols of fear," he ...

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.

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its ... Elements of the old Confederate Battle Emblem continue to divide Georgians ...