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.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that six months after the Georgia legislature adopted a new state flag with a reduced confederate emblem, some people want to bring back the old flag. People in the town ...

Georgia voters will choose between the new flag and the 2001 flag in a referendum next March. Few give the old flag any chance to win. Many groups had lobbied for Perdue to veto the bill, but the ...