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 ...

The great-great grandchildren of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson have a message for those who adamantly want to preserve the Confederate leaders’ monuments: Let it go.

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 ...

When the city of New Orleans had a century-old memorial to Jefferson Davis ... have portrayed him. Davis maintained a close partnership with Gen. Robert E. Lee, for example, and could count ...

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 ...

After two years, the Montgomery County Board of Education has voted to change the names of Robert E. Lee High School and Jefferson Davis High School. Lee High School will be named for Montgomery ...

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 ...