Two Texas lawmakers have filled bills that would eliminate Confederate Heroes Day, a state holiday honoring the Confederacy, which is celebrated the same week...
Confederate Heroes Day was made a state holiday in 1973 and falls the same week — and sometimes the same day — as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Johnson has filed a bill that would abolish Confederate Heroes Day — his third time filing the legislation. In 2019 and 2021, Johnson’s bill never got past the State Affairs Committee. Confederate Heroes Day was established in 1973 as a state holiday. It would be another 18 years before the Texas Legislature made Martin Luther King Jr. Day a statewide holiday. This is not the first time state lawmakers have filed legislation in hopes of ending the holiday celebrating the Confederacy. But the bills have never become law.
“At no point in my life, at no point in my children’s life, will I ever celebrate that part of my history,” Johnson said.
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