State offices are closed today for one of Alabama’s three Confederate-related holidays.

April 22 is observed as Confederate Memorial Day and state offices, including state courts, are closed. Federal and municipal offices and courts are open.

Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday since 1901, is observed annually on the fourth Monday in April. The state also has holidays for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee combined with the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in January and another honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis in June.

Alabama is one of the few remaining states to mark the day as an official state holiday. Mississippi marks Confederate Memorial Day on the last Monday in April and South Carolina has its state holiday in May.

Recent efforts to cut Confederate-related holidays from the state schedule have been unsuccessful.