Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

While talking about Fort Bragg, named for an ineffective Confederate general ... end of the Civil War. Jefferson Davis Day was added in 1905. Does Florida recognize Robert E. Lee's birthday ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states ... In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in Southern states ...

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...

Lee When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Many states in the South ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is renewing accusation that Charleston County schools violated state law when it ...

(AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...

dozens gathered at Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington on Saturday to honor Confederate generals Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Brandon Dorsey, commander of the Stonewall Brigade SCV ...