Texas commemorates Confederate Heroes' Day on Jan. 19 in conjunctions with observance of birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall ... its proximity to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is observed ...

ALABAMA: Harper Lee Harper Lee, the author of the seminal ... Du Bois died in August 1963, the day before the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Alabama marks Confederate Memorial Day in April and the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in June. The state jointly observes Robert E. Lee Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in ...

Texas commemorates Confederate Heroes' Day on Jan. 19 in conjunctions with observance of birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson ... extra controversy due to its proximity to Martin Luther ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...

(AP Photo/File) FILE - A bronze and steel sculpture honoring a sanitation workers strike that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in 1968 was dedicated on April 5, 2018, in Memphis ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...