Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Rev. Robert W. Lee IV is actually descended from a family of Lees in Alabama who arrived in America separately from, and have no known ties to, Robert E. Lee's Virginia dynasty, records show.

The Rev. Rob Lee, who spoke out against Birmingham’s Confederate monument in 2018 while claiming to be a relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, is not related to the general, The Washington ...

Families of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite to tell a more inclusive history together 05:29. Visitors can return to Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, starting on Tuesday.

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.