Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of ... including the second largest confederate battle flag in the world featured prominently in early yearbooks ...
Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...
But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the ... Both men have January birthdays. Lee was born Jan. 19, 1807. King was born Jan. 15, 1929. In the years after the ...