Robert E. Lee Memorial Association ... of slavery to others. After Lee’s death in 1870, Frederick Douglass, the former fugitive slave who had become the nation’s most prominent African ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... The length of time flags should be at half-staff after the death of ...

A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to ...

Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate ... which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to a floor vote.

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...