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The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that once stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down at a ceremonial event. After both cultural and legal battles, the statue of ...
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.
Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace Melted down in secret, the divisive Confederate monument will be turned into a new piece of public art ...
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which was removed from Charlottesville, Va.'s Market Street Park in 2021, has been melted down so that it can be turned into a new art installation.
The red, heart-shaped sculpture atop the Harmony Circle column was the first artwork to replace the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee – now it’s been removed ...
People A Felled Robert E. Lee Statue in Virginia Will Be Replaced by a Memorial to Henrietta Lacks. The memorial plaza will also be renamed for Lacks, whose cancer cells—taken without her ...
A foundry worker using a plasma torch prepares to cut the head of Charlottesville’s bronze monument of Robert E. Lee in preparation for melting the statue, Oct. 21, 2023.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — 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 works ...
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.