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The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
Robert E. Lee, a statue given to the National Statuary Hall by Virginia in 1909 (removed in favor of Barbara Rose Johns in 2020) [1] The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to Robert E. Lee, who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865. At the end is a listing of monuments and memorials to ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Virginia removed during the George Floyd protests" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The VMI statue has been moved to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park. [9] Davis, Lee, and Jackson on Stone Mountain. He was memorialized on historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia with an equestrian statue by Frederick William Sievers the Stonewall Jackson Monument; unveiled October 11, 1919 and removed on July 1, 2020.
Richmond leaders have also committed to taking down four other Confederate memorials in the city 'A Long Time Coming': Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue to Be Removed in Virginia Skip to main ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The claim: George Floyd statue removed from National Mall. A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims a statue of George Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a white ...
The City of Richmond began work to remove the city-controlled statues, beginning with the Stonewall Jackson monument, on July 1, 2020. [42] Matthew Maury's statue was removed on July 2, and J. E. B. Stuart's on July 7. [43] The Lee Monument was removed by the Commonwealth of Virginia on September 8, 2021. [44]