COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An impassioned plea by a descendant of the Confederate president seemed to swing momentum as South Carolina legislators debated whether to remove the rebel battle flag from the ...
Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America, a white supremacist government, from 1861 to 1865. Since 1901, Alabama has marked Jefferson Davis' Birthday as a state holiday on ...
In several Southern states, June 3rd - the birthday of the leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis - is still an official holiday. A handful of states in the South have an official holiday, June 3, ...