Alabama, Mississippi also honoring Robert E. Lee on Martin …
3 days ago · 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 ...
Mississippi And Alabama Still Celebrate Robert E. Lee. Why?
4 days ago · Mississippi and Alabama are the only two states that still celebrate Confederate Gen.Robert E. Lee’s birthday alongside the federal holiday set aside for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther ...
Mississippi should stop celebrating Robert E. Lee
3 days ago · Lee is unworthy of commemoration because his values don’t reflect our values today. He does, however, reflect the values of the white supremacists who created the Robert E. Lee Holiday in 1910. Commemoration has more to do with the people who created the holiday than the man himself. In fact, Lee never lived in Mississippi or even visited the ...
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
4 days ago · But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate ... Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of official ...
Mississippi, Alabama honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King …
6 days ago · 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 ...
In Mississippi, MLK Day is also Robert E. Lee Day. This lawmaker …
Jan 15, 2024 · But in Mississippi, Monday is also a holiday honoring someone else: Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. Mississippi is one of just two states — along with neighboring Alabama — that officially honors Lee on the shared holiday.
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.
MLK Day is Monday. In Mississippi and Alabama, it’s also Robert E. Lee …
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 and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
3 days ago · 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.
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin …
But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. ... Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of ...
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