After months of debating Georgia's flag, state lawmakers struck a surprise compromise Friday — an entirely new flag that echoes an old Confederate flag but does not include the divisive Dixie ...

After months of debating Georgia's flag, state lawmakers struck a surprise compromise Friday -- an entirely new flag that echoes an old Confederate flag but does not include the divisive Dixie ...

Georgia Finally Unfurls New Flag April 4, 2003 / 3:57 PM EST / AP Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill Thursday to replace the unpopular 2-year-old state flag with a simpler design that does not ...

ATLANTA, May 8 -- A new state flag without the Confederate emblem was raised over the Capitol today after a redesign aimed at laying to rest a dispute that inflamed race relations and roiled ...

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 ...

A new state flag without the Confederate emblem was raised over the Capitol on Thursday after a redesign aimed at laying to rest a dispute that inflamed race relations and roiled Georgia politics.

The Georgia Senate voted Tuesday to give the state its third flag in just over two years, but not before fixing typos in the bill that could lead to the legislation's defeat.

In Georgia, an intense political battle broke out in 2002 over the design of the state flag and the question of whether it should include elements acknowledging Georgia's Confederate past.

Nobody in Georgia needs to be told that a flag is a powerful symbol. Wars have been waged, movements launched, and leaders defeated, all over the scraps of fabric we fly above the land.

1879. In 1879, the General Assembly adopted the state's first official flag. It had a vertical blue bar down the entire left side with three horizontal bars -- red, white and red -- on the right side.

Georgia's State Flag In Atlanta today, Martin Luther King Jr.'s family is marking the King holiday with a new push to change Georgia's state flag.