Civil War vestiges remain
Kathleen Foody, Jeffrey Collins and Meg Kinnard, The Associated Press
Published Saturday, July 11, 2015 12:03PM EDT
... Georgia's state flag long resembled the Confederate stars and bars until 1956, when the design prominently incorporated the battle flag design removed from South Carolina. That was widely believed to be a protest to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that ordered the desegregation of schools.
In 2001, Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes signed a law ordering a new flag that prominently featured the state seal against a blue background; much smaller images of the older, Confederate-inspired flags of the past were shown beneath, above the words "In God We Trust." That design lasted only until 2003, when Barnes lost re-election and his Republican successor signed a bill into law restoring the stars and bars-inspired design.
Other efforts to change the flag failed, including in 1993 when then-Gov. Zell Miller called the rebel emblem "the Confederacy's most inflammatory symbol."
Democratic state Sen. Vincent Fort, who is black, plans to introduce legislation to end Georgia's commemoration of Confederate holidays, which are commonly observed by governments in the Deep South. However, many of his Republican counterparts in the Republican-dominated legislature and the governor have shown little appetite for taking up such issues ...
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/south-carolina-s-confederate-flag-is-gone-but-civil-war-vestiges-remain-1.2464763
