About that time, Hollings presented a Confederate flag to President John F ... most notably Arkansas’s Orval Faubus and Alabama’s George Wallace. (Wallace installed the rebel flag over ...
Military bases should not be named "for traitors to our country but instead honor American heroes like Novosel," she wrote ...
Flags in Alabama will be lowered to back half-staff ... observe the state holiday honoring the birthday of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general. Most federal, state and local government offices ...
Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Will that change?
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 ...
On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...
During their visit, the group twice raised a Confederate flag in the city ... The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based non-profit civil rights group that tracks hate crimes ...