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Dec 8, 2021

A Measure Of Justice


The Daily Progress: (Charlottesville)

Charlottesville’s nearly 100-year-old statue of Robert E. Lee will be melted and turned into a piece of public art, as the city faces a history of racial harm and aims now for a future of racial justice.

The initial decision to remove the statue sparked the deadly white supremacist Unite The Right rally in August 2017, where anti-racism activist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of other counter-protesters were seriously injured.

The City Council made the historic vote just minutes after midnight, hours into a routine City Council meeting. The unanimous decision allows the city to donate the statue of the Confederate leader to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a local Black history museum.
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