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Richmond residents ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear Lee statue case
Two Richmond residents living near the site where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stood for more than a century ...
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Statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis Is Torn Down by Protesters in Richmond
The statue of Jefferson Davis was the third monument to be taken down by protesters in Richmond this past week Protesters in Richmond, Virginia tore down a statue of Confederate President ...
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Richmond: Confederate general's descendant sees statue removed
The city of Richmond, Virginia, has removed its last statue honouring the rebels in the American Civil War. The former Confederate capital took down the monument to Confederate General AP Hill on ...
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How an Arthur Ashe statue ended up in Richmond's Confederate memorial
“Richmond Could Be Next Monument Battleground,” an NBC News report asserted on Sunday. The capital of Virginia, and the former capital of the Confederacy, is a target-rich environment when it ...
Activists hail Robert E. Lee statue removal, say more work remains: “I think we have to keep learning”
When an enormous statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its pedestal Wednesday in the former capital of the Confederacy and carted off to storage, many civil rights activists saw it as a ...
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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right
In June 2020, protesters in Richmond used ropes ... the beginning of “the path to freedom for millions of people who had been enslaved.” And in Roanoke, a statue of Henrietta Lacks, whose ...