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In the earliest days of Tyler's Robert E. Lee High School, the ties to the confederacy that Lee had served were everywhere at the school and its sporting events. One group, known as the Rebel ...
Some alumni of Robert E. Lee High School are planning to pin a Rebel-inspired medal to their Fiesta sashes this year, just months after a decision to drop the school's controversial name.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades ...
Robert E. Lee's son, William H.F. “Rooney” Lee was to inherit the plantation upon his mother’s death, but he went ahead and moved there in 1859, taking control of its operations.
Robert E. Lee emblematizes this. Personally and professionally, privately and publically—by all accounts, Lee must be among the finest human beings that has ever walked the Earth.
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
Before the meeting started, Kevin Braly, Robert E. Lee Class of 1977 ... It was forced to close in 1970, a casualty of the same integration battle that took away Robert E. Lee’s Rebel flag.
Kelly is right about Robert E. Lee By . Ralph Peters. Published Oct. 31, 2017. ... Rare was the Rebel soldier who owned a slave (as usual, the rich often stayed home).
Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to desegregation in many southern states. ... the rebel mascot and the school song, ...
Kappa Alpha was founded in 1865 at Washington & Lee University -- a school partly named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, and the group calls Lee its "spiritual founder." ...
A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades after years of complaints ...