This week, the Virginia House voted to strike Lee-Jackson Day from the list of state holidays ... Bill Lee signed a proclamation in July declaring a holiday for a Confederate Army General and ...

Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as “defenders of causes,” and to designate Election Day as a state holiday in its place. The bill, which had already passed the state Senate ...

Lee signed the proclamation Wednesday ... Day on Feb. 12, Andrew Jackson Day on March 15 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11, and to "invite the people of this state to observe the days in schools ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Several days after the holiday, the Virginia Senate passed a bill that would remove Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday. If fully passed, the legislation would replace the ...

Lee-Jackson Day is currently observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and results in the closing of state offices such as the DMV. From 1983 to 2000 it was celebrated as Lee ...

LEXINGTON, Va. (WSET) — Despite Lee-Jackson Day no longer being recognized as a state holiday, dozens gathered at Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington on Saturday to honor Confederate generals Thomas ...

In 2000, pushed by Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore, Virginia would end the state’s “Lee-Jackson-King Day” and reserve the third Monday of January for the civil rights leader. It should be said ...

Bill Lee signed a proclamation declaring ... declare January 19 as "Robert E. Lee Day"; February 12 as "Abraham Lincoln Day"; March 15 as "Andrew Jackson Day"; June 3 as "Memorial or Confederate ...

The Democratic-led House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would make Election Day a state holiday instead of Lee-Jackson Day. The Senate has already passed its version of the legislation.

Perhaps nowhere in Virginia does Lee-Jackson Day stoke stronger emotions than in Lexington, the city where the two Southern generals honored by the state holiday are buried. This year is no ...

(WSET) — January 13 was the 25th time Lee-Jackson Day has been celebrated in Lexington ... The holiday itself ended in 2021, as a state holiday, but the festivities have continued in Lexington.