Georgia flag change. The georgia state legislature amended its flag law twenty one months later to change one confederate flag design the stars and bars to another the so called confederate battle flag. Georgias secretary of state may have orderedor at least approvedthe change because the first state publication to show the seal on the flag was the 1927 volume of the georgia official register published by the secretary of state. Democratic party leader john sammons bell began the campaign a year earlier after two controversial supreme court decisions that ordered the desegregation of public.
By the late 1990s the design had become widely known as the georgian historical national flag as vexillologists had pointed out the red on white jerusalem cross shown as the flag of tbilisi in a 14th century map by domenico and francesco pizzigano. Roy barnes right and cecil alexander left the designer of the new georgia state flag pose with the banner in the governors office at the capitol wednesday jan. Adopted by act of the general assembly as its battalion colors governor colquitt approved georgias first official state flag on october 17 1879.
The flag bears three stripes consisting of red white red featuring a blue canton containing a ring of 13 white stars encompassing the states coat of arms in gold. The georgia state flag was changed feb. On this date in 1956 governor marvin griffin signed legislation to change the georgia flag to one that included the confederate battle emblem on two thirds of the banner.
The current flag of the state of georgia was adopted on may 8 2003. 13 1956 incorporating a confederate battle emblem into the design as a response to the supreme court rulings on desegregating schools. In 1902 as part of a major reorganization of state militia laws georgias general assembly changed the state flag adopted in 1879.
The current flag was used by the georgian patriotic movement following the countrys independence from the soviet union in 1991. It was not a flag that all georgians could rally around.