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Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia)

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On August 20, 2017, the City Council unanimously voted to shroud both the Lee and Jackson statues in black. The council "also decided to direct the city manager to take an administrative step that would make it easier to eventually remove the Jackson statue." The statues were covered in black shrouds
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head Rick Turner supported removal, calling Lee a terrorist. Others accused the council and Bellamy of disregarding Lee's historical significance, overlooking his importance to Virginia, sowing division, and trying to rewrite history. A petition to remove the statue was initiated, with wording saying
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On October 14, 2019, both statues were damaged by a chisel (the Jackson statue being damaged a second time, as it was prior in September). Charlottesville police stated that they were investigating the vandalism. On November 28, 2019, the statue was painted with graffiti, saying: "Impeach Trump" and
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In December 2021, after the Lee statue's removal, the City Council approved a proposal to melt it down and repurpose the material for public art. A second lawsuit was filed by the Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation shortly thereafter. In 2023, the counts pertaining
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In March 2016, Charlottesville's Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy publicly called on the City Council to remove the Lee statue and rename Lee Park, saying that the statue's presence "disrespected" parts of the community, and that he had "spoken with several different people who have said they have refused to
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The city responded by asking that the temporary injunction be denied, arguing that the two statues were not Confederate monuments and therefore outside the law's protection. The city also argued that the law did not apply to any monuments erected before it was amended to apply to cities in 1997 --
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On July 9, 2021, the City Council announced that the Lee Monument would be removed the following day, and, on July 10, 2021, both the Lee and Jackson statues were removed by the city. In October 2023, the Lee statue was cut into pieces and melted down, with the intention of later turning the metal
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of Brooklyn, New York. Comparison with a surviving model of the proposed statue by Shrady reveals Lentelli's version is less animated than that intended by Shrady. The oval granite pedestal was designed by the architect Walter Blair and on its side had the inscription "Robert Edward Lee" with the
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lifted the injunction in April 2021, holding that the state law thought to restrict the removal did not apply retroactively to statutes passed before its effect (the law was applied to Virginia cities in 1997, but the statue had been erected in 1924). However, rather than immediately remove the
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On August 12, 2017, during the Unite the Right rally, clashes broke out between supporters of the statue, who marched under Confederate, American, and Revolutionary flags, and counter-protesters. During the rally, counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured by
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In October 2019 Moore ruled that local authorities in Charlottesville could not remove the two Confederate statues because they were war memorials protected by state law, and issued a permanent injunction preventing their removal.
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Sometime overnight between July 7 and 8, 2017, the Lee statue was vandalized by being daubed in red paint. It had been vandalized before; in June 2016, the pedestal was spray painted with the words "Black Lives Matter".
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statue, the city opted to employ the new removal process authorized under the law's 2020 amendments, which entails public notice, a public hearing after 30 days, and 30 days to field offers for relocation of the statue.
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On May 2, 2017, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore issued a temporary injunction blocking the removal of the Lee statue for six months, in the public's interest, pending his final decision in the suit.
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on August 23, 2017. On February 27, 2018, Judge Richard Moore ruled that the City of Charlottesville had to remove the black tarps covering the statues and the city complied, removing the shrouds a day later.
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dates 1807 and 1870. The sculpture and pedestal combined were approximately 26 feet high, 12 feet long, and 8 feet wide (7.9 m × 3.7 m × 2.4 m) at the bottom of the pedestal.
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In April 2017, the City Council voted 3-2 (exactly along the lines of the February vote) that the statue be removed completely from Charlottesville and sold to whomever the council chose.
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groups from across the United States; this rally in turn caused counterdemonstrations, which in turn caused serious clashes; the event took a deadly turn when a white supremacist
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for a second, nighttime rally and shouted slogans including "Jews will not replace us", but put out their torches and left as police officers began to arrive to disperse them.
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held a rally in Charlottesville protesting the city's plan to remove the statue. The approximately 50 Klansmen were met by several hundred counter-protesters. The police used
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in protest of the City Council's decision to remove and sell the Lee statue and chanted "you will not replace us" and "Russia is our friend". Some of the ralliers procured
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Counter-protesters gathered the following day and held a silent candlelight vigil that attracted over a hundred of the town's citizens, and
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Judge dismisses two counts of lawsuit that would block melting Lee statue - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper
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Shrady was chronically ill at the time of the commission – he worked on it slowly and it was still unfinished on his death in 1922.
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In 2018, the Lee statue was placed on the Make It Right Project's list of ten Confederate monuments it most wanted to see removed.
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On the morning of July 10, 2021, the Lee statue was removed from its pedestal by the city. The mayor of Charlottesville,
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In response, a lawsuit was filed on March 20, 2017, by multiple plaintiffs, including the Monument Fund Inc, the
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On February 6, 2017, the City Council voted 3-2 to remove the Lee statue and, unanimously, to rename Lee Park.
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to the statue's fate were dismissed for lack of standing, clearing the way for the project to proceed.
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Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia
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On April 1, 2021, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned Moore's decision and lifted the injunction.
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rammed a car into a crowd of counterdemonstrators, killing one and wounding 35
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Charlottesville City Council Votes to Sell Statue by Bid, Rename Lee Park
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In April 2016, the City Council appointed a special commission, named the
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the statue represented "hate" and was a "subliminal message of racism".
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Four Monumental Figurative Outdoor Sculptures in Charlottesville MPS
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for August 2017 to protest the proposed removal that drew numerous
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Lee sculpture covered in black tarpaulin following the
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Robert E. Lee Monument (disambiguation)
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Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia) is located in the United States
Market Street Park
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Henry Shrady
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Four Monumental Figurative Outdoor Sculptures in Charlottesville MPS
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equestrian statue
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Robert E. Lee
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Market Street Park
Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District
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removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
Stonewall Jackson statue
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Unite the Right rally

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