He tried to check out a Robert E. Lee book from the library. ... A 1961 mug shot of Wyatt Tee Walker and his wife, Theresa, who were both arrested in Jackson, Miss., for protesting segregation.

The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., went up in 1924. A year later, the U.S. Congress voted to use federal funds to restore the Lee mansion in the Arlington National Cemetery.