Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over Confederate heritage.

In February 1861, representatives of these seven states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to draft the Confederate Constitution. Similar to the U.S. Constitution, the Confederate Constitution granted ...

Contracts involving Confederate currency ... Supreme Court did hold that Congress had exceeded its power under the Constitution in refusing to repay the bonds in gold, but it concluded that ...

The battle over Confederate school names in Shenandoah ... in Harrisonburg alleges that the school board violated the U.S. Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal ...

“This ruling affirms the importance of addressing our clients' claims that the continued use of the Confederate school ... equality enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,” Ashley Joyner Chavous ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

The NAACP has filed a lawsuit after Shenandoah County Public Schools reverted school names back to those honoring Confederate ...