Community members gathered at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center on October 30 to hear the latest on the Swords Into Plowshares project, which seeks to melt down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue and repurpose its bronze into a new public artwork. In December, the Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation filed […]
Community members gathered at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center on October 30 to hear the latest on the Swords Into Plowshares project, which seeks to melt down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue and repurpose its bronze into a new public artwork. In December, the Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation filed […]
Richmond Lee statue goes down Workers removed Richmond’s gigantic statue of Robert E. Lee last week, following years of advocacy from activists, politicians, and lawyers. The 21-foot-tall, five-ton casting, the largest Confederate statue in the U.S., was cut in two and sent to an undisclosed location. Its stone plinth still stands, covered in graffiti from […]
On Monday night, Charlottesville City Council unanimously voted to remove the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the city’s public parks. “Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, that the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee shall be removed from Market Street Park, […]
Before August 12, 2017, many people thought of America’s Confederate statues as harmless pieces of history—if they thought of them at all. Then the hate groups came to Charlottesville, ostensibly to protest the monuments’ removal. The violent clashes that led to the death of Heather Heyer and the injury of dozens, and the sight of […]