The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the ...

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the '50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...

Replacing Lee’s statue in Emancipation Hall is the final piece of a multi-year project to rewrite American history.

In the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation replaced a ...

A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military ...

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 January ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the ...