State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, a Houston Democrat, announced on Wednesday morning a new bill, House Bill 51, that aims to abolish Confederate Heroes Day as an official Texas state holiday. The ...

Three days after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Texas will observe the state holiday of Confederate Heroes Day on Thursday. Democrats in the Texas House said it should be the last time. KXAN's Ryan ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Confederate Memorial Day is still celebrated across the South ... Alabama treats it as an official holiday. Texas celebrates ...

Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina takes place on Friday ... Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. Although S.C. observes the day on May 10, dates of observance in other states may vary.

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

He quarreled with both Confederate and Texas officials over military issues and organization of the Confederacy. Appeals from Texas for more military aid went unheeded. In 1865, after the ...

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 ...

Texas, and Virginia. Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate Memorial Day was ...