JAWS: See It Before You Go Swimming.” 50 years ago this weekend, movie goers at their local cinemas were introduced to Bruce, the great white shark and the movie spectacle would never be the ...

Robert E. Lee, Jr., 72, a lifelong resident of Chattanooga passed away on May 22, 2025 from complications due to surgery. He was born on January 20, 1953, to the late Robert E. Lee, ...

With that in mind, The Progress-Index did a quick Google search of famous (and not so famous) non-Confederate soldiers with the last name of Lee. While the most common pop-up was Revolutionary War ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

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 Reagan signed ...

According to WBHM, Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by Southern states in the years and decades following the Civil War but eventually was abandoned by most after President Ronald ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. 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 ...

Tennesee observed Lee's birthday from 1917 to 1969 when it was changed to a "special day of observance," but state law requires the governor to proclaim Jan. 19 as Robert E. Lee Day, along with ...

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.

King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. In 2 states, MLK Day also honors Robert E. Lee. When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing ...

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?