Alabama, Mississippi also honoring Robert E. Lee on Martin …
5 days ago · The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King 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 honor of ...
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
Jan 19, 2025 · But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments created holidays more than a century ago to honor Lee and later combined the day with the federal holiday established in the 1980s to honor King.
Mississippi, Alabama honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King …
Jan 17, 2025 · In 2 states, MLK Day also honors Robert E. Lee. When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate ...
Mississippi And Alabama Still Celebrate Robert E. Lee. Why?
6 days ago · According to WBHM, Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by Southern states in the years and decades following the Civil War but eventually was abandoned by most after President Ronald ...
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
Jan 19, 2025 · Alabama and Mississippi in the 1980s adopted Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday, adding it to their existing day honoring Lee. ... Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate ...
Why Alabama, Mississippi still celebrate King-Lee Day | WBHM 90.3
Jan 12, 2024 · In Alabama and Mississippi, it’s also Robert E. Lee Day, honoring the famed Civil War general of the Confederacy whose birthday falls just days later on January 19. As a 2017 Smithsonian Magazine article put it , the two men were born 122 years, four days and an ideological world apart.
Alabama is one of two states to recognize MLK, Robert E. Lee …
Jan 16, 2023 · Alabama is one of just two states in the nation to recognize Confederate leader Robert E. Lee’s birthday on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Alabama still has combined Martin Luther King, Robert E. Lee …
Jan 17, 2022 · Alabama has three state holidays dedicated to the Confederacy: King-Lee Day, Confederate Memorial Day; and the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in June. The first holiday of...
Robert E. Lee: Children & Civil War General - HISTORY
Oct 29, 2009 · Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general who led the South’s failed attempt at secession from the United States during the Civil War.
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a January state holiday for Lee. Mississippi did the same in 1910. ... Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of ...