A dispute erupted over a statue honoring Barbara Rose Johns, who protested segregation. Her statue replaced Confederate Gen.

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 ...

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...

The U.S. Capitol will soon display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...

Barton Mitchell discovered General Lee's plans for the Battle of Antietam. Little known history of Barton Mitchell, a corporal from Bartholomew County, who served in the Union Army during the Civil ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America. Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, lawmakers unveiled a new statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns at the US Capitol, replacing one of Civil ...