The 1956 Georgia state flag caused controversy for nearly forty years because it A) changed Georgia's state seal. B) was not approved by the governor. C) bore the Confederate battle flag. D) was not flown in front of municipal building.

C. Bore the confederate flag

Explanation:

Controversy arose in the year 1956 Georgia state flag because it bore the confederate flag which the house were outrightly against.

It bore the Confederate battle flag

Explanation:

The Confederate battle blag was the symbol of white supremacists of Southern ancestry in the United states at the time. These were people who believed that people with white skin were superior to people with coloured or black skin and hence perceived and treated them as slavesand racially as well as segregated them.

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