PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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The 2006 Flag Issue
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The 1956 Flag Issue
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The 1906 Flag Issue
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The 1965 Flag Issue
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Detailed explanation-1: -The proposal adopted by the committee called for a flag consisting of a red field divided by a white band one-third the width of the field, thus producing three bars of equal width.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1879 flag was introduced by Georgia state senator Herman H. Perry and was adopted to memorialize Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Confederate battle emblem stamped on Georgia’s flag doesn’t date to the Civil War era, but to February 1956. That’s when lawmakers voted to change the banner to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that mandated the desegregation of schools.
Detailed explanation-4: -The new flag design of Georgia has three horizontal stripes of red, white, red with a blue field in the upper left. In the blue field, the state’s coat of arms is placed in the center with 13 white five-point stars surrounding it and the motto, “In God we trust, ” underneath the coat of arms.