Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers ... Lee proposes enlisting black soldiers to fill the gap in manpower, a terrifying proposition to most southerners.

Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all ... TISD served a student population that was 67 percent white and 32 percent black. Today, Tyler ISD’s student population is 46 percent ...

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

Black lawmakers in Alabama and Mississippi have made multiple ... Many states in the South have opted to abolish or rename ...

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers ... Lee proposes enlisting black soldiers to fill the gap in manpower, a terrifying proposition to most southerners.

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... The effort picked up steam after the murder of George Floyd and the rise in Black Lives Matter protests around the country calling ...