The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

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

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Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... preferring to move on, but after his death he was lionized into a cultural icon and the central figure of "The Lost Cause," an effort ...

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... opinions on race have been contested and distorted since his death, but historian Eric Foner notes that Lee owned slaves and ...

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

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