What States Celebrate Confederate Holidays? Alabama Rep. Alvin Holmes Wants Them Eliminated

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By Barbara Herman
July 08 2015 9:16 PM EDT
With momentum growing to ban the Confederate flag in the wake of the racially motivated murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, Alabama Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, has just upped the ante. On Wednesday, he announced that he will submit a bill to eliminate Alabama's three state-recognized Confederate holidays ... Not content to celebrate one Confederate holiday, Alabama celebrates three: The birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War, whose birthday on January 19 awkwardly coincides with civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday and MLK Day; Confederate Memorial Day, the last Monday in April; and the birthday of Jefferson Davis, a soldier and politician who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, on the first Monday in June ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/what-states-celebrate-confederate-holidays-alabama-rep-alvin-holmes-wants-them-2000428

[yallerdawg]

1. Alvin Holmes is a Democratic icon!

It took him a number of years, but he got that flag off the Alabama State Capitol dome.

These three holidays are an embarrassment. He'll give the Republican legislature hell if they don't agree they have to go! Perfect time, too - Alabama was going to cut holidays cause we don't have money to pay state workers anyway.