In the end, that did not happen. After months of arguing, lawmakers drew up a new flag instead. The new Georgia state flag and the U.S. flag flutter by Miss Freedom, at the state Capitol in Atlanta.

Georgia's flag saga began in 2001, when black lawmakers led a movement to change the 1956-issue state flag that was dominated by a large Confederate emblem. Then-Gov. Roy Barnes pushed a new flag ...

Since 1956, the Confederate battle cross has occupied two-thirds of Georgia's flag. On the redesigned flag, the state seal is the dominant image.

Civil rights activists and others opposed to official public displays of the Confederate Battle Symbol in the South won an unusually quick victory in Georgia yesterday as the State Senate voted to ...