The Confederate flag: ... Georgia lawmakers previously had voted to greatly reduce the rebel cross' presence on the state flag in 2001, changing the state banner for the first time since 1956.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, white Southerners flew the Confederate battle flag at riots — including violent ones — to oppose racial integration, especially in schools.

Georgia. For 45 years, the state flag was dominated by an image of the Confederate cross. But the state Senate passed a 2001 resolution that called for a new design, composed largely of Georgia's ...

In adapting his flag to take these criticisms into account, Miles removed the palmetto tree and crescent and substituted a diagonal cross for the St. George's cross. In a report to the Confederate ...

The first Confederate national flag bore 7 stars representing the first seven states to secede from the U.S. and band together as the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

The Arkansas state flag oozes Confederate battle flag vibes: The St. Andrew’s Cross with stars has morphed into a diamond shape, but the angles and colors are all the same.

ASHEBORO, N.C. — The first unpleasant tug of history came before the election, when the yards around Dexter Trogdon Jr.'s house started blooming with Confederate flags. Then last spring, the Ku ...

Mississippi’s flag has included the Confederate emblem – a blue cross with 13 stars over a red background – since 1894. Critics of the state flag say it’s racist, while others believe it ...

The Saint Andrew's Cross ("X") element, which was the flag of Scotland, was chosen out of disagreements that a standard cross would too easily resemble religious iconography.

General Pierre T. Beauregard chose a variation on the cross of St. Andrew. The battle flag features a blue cross, edged with a white band on a red field. There are three stars on each arm of the cross ...