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Confederate Civil War Memorial carving, Stone Mountain Park, Georgia

Why Texas Still Celebrates Confederate Heroes Day

Source: Texas Monthly

At the start of the 2021 Legislative session in the state of Texas, a bill was filed to end an outdated state holiday. Find out why it’s on the books at all.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom, The Move Toward Freedom and tagged Culture & Society on February 1, 2021 by Mikki Gibson.

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