Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery opened in 1955 and would remain all-white for nine years. Jefferson Davis High School was named a decade later. Watkins-Smith, who conducted research on the ...

In a 5-2 vote, the board approved renaming Jefferson Davis High School to Dr. Percy Julian High School and Robert E. Lee High School to JAG High School, after the first initial of the last names ...

General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored in 1976. It is fitting that Jefferson Davis should no longer be singled out for punishment. "Our Nation needs to clear away the guilts and enmities ...

They had felt that Sidney Lanier, a poet, was inappropriately grouped in with Jefferson Davis and Robert. E. Lee. More: As a committee narrows list of potential new high school names, Lanier ...

The Montgomery County Board of Education voted Tuesday night to change the names of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Sidney Lanier high schools — each named after men who were members of ...

And he used to attend the annual memorial ceremonies in Washington to mark the birthday of Jefferson ... portrayed him. Davis maintained a close partnership with Gen. Robert E. Lee, for example ...

When Alabamians mark Jefferson Davis Day on ... legislation posthumously restoring Davis’s full citizenship rights on Oct. 17, 1978. (General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship had been restored ...

He was the second cousin-in-law of Lee. To others, he was an inspiration. Jefferson Davis was not just named ... remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The protesters and ...

Jefferson Davis Day was added in 1905. Lee County’s namesake: How Lee County was founded and the controversy that follows years later Does Florida recognize Robert E. Lee's birthday and other ...