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Lee sculpture covered in black tarpaulin following the Unite the Right rally of 2017. The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.
A bronze ingot melted from the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is shown during a news conference on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Charlottesville, Va. (Cal Cary/The Daily Progress via AP)
Market Street Park, known as Lee Park until 2017, and as Emancipation Park from June 2017 to July 2018, is a public park in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. [1] [2] Market Street Park is bordered on the north by Jefferson Street, on the south by Market Street, on the west by First Street N.E., and the east by Second Street N.E. [1]
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its threatened removal became a ...
In 2016, the Charlottesville city council responded by voting to make changes including the removal of some statues and changing the names of some parks. Counterprotesters then filed a lawsuit to keep the statues. On July 10, 2021, the city removed the statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. [1]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new ...
Protests over the plan to remove the statue morphed into the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in […] The post Robert E. Lee statue that prompted deadly protest in ...
The statue which resulted in riots and deaths in 2017 has been reduced down to bronze after being melted in a secret location