Today, Mississippi commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee, together. For this son of a Mississippian ... Slavery was a moral abomination, which featured legal rape, separating mother ...

Nelson was the first Texas death row inmate executed since Robert Roberson’s Oct. 17 ... The first is scheduled for Feb. 13. Richard Lee Tabler was condemned for gunning down a strip club ...

$2,000 in restitution ∎ Cody Lee Tippett, of Grove City, 30 days in prison, three years probation, $500 restitution ∎ Colton Wargo, 27, of Westlake, and his mother, Kimberly Wargo, 57 ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them. The holidays were adopted by ...

Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since the early 1900s, later combining it with the federal celebration of King, which President Ronald ...

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 ...

Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by states in the South for decades following the Civil War, but was abandoned by most after President Ronald Reagan designated the third Monday in ...

Two U.S. states honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do you know which ones? This year, the state and federal holiday also ...