States are not required to observe any of the 10 federal holidays, including #MLKDay.
In many cases, they don’t.
Some states even honor Confederate generals — and not the civil rights leader. vox.com/the-highlight/…
In many cases, they don’t.
Some states even honor Confederate generals — and not the civil rights leader. vox.com/the-highlight/…
Alabama and Mississippi still celebrate a “King-Lee” day that lumps King together with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose birthday is January 19.
Until 2000, Virginia took this idea even further, creating a “Lee-Jackson-King Day” that also honored Confederate leader Stonewall Jackson.
“Bundling the holidays remains a form of resistance to racial justice in America,” history professor Jill K. Gill told Vox.
By putting King alongside Lee, she added, “it also remains a vehicle for obscuring white supremacist aims, past and present.”
By putting King alongside Lee, she added, “it also remains a vehicle for obscuring white supremacist aims, past and present.”
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