'An Incredible Day' As Lee Statue Removed In CharlottesvilleThe statue's removal came more than five years after racial justice activists had renewed a push to take down the monument, an initiative that drew the attention of white supremacists and other racist groups, culminating in the violent “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
At Least 160 Confederate Symbols Removed In 2020, SPLC SaysWhen rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn't encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
Detailed Plans In Place For Careful Removal Of Virginia's Robert E. Lee StatueWhen the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to the site where the towering monument was erected as a tribute to a Confederate hero.
