The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state removed from the U.S. Capitol in December 2020.

The statue of Robert E. Lee and busts of others who fought for or governed the Confederacy were quietly removed from the Virginia ... the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history ... it was toppled in Virginia. In June 2020, protesters in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader ...

Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday said he's directing the Department of General Services to take down the Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue "as soon as possible." ...

and the knowledgeable docents provide a wonderful introduction to Richmond and Virginia history,” says Harris. Plus, she notes, it’s home to a life-size statue of George Washington ...

RICHMOND, Va ... Brown told Richmond City Council that Stoney did not have the power to remove statues, Stoney said he believed he is on sound legal ground to remove the statues using his emergency ...

RICHMOND — City and state officials have reached an agreement to transfer ownership of the statue and ... last summer’s racial justice protests, many cities around Virginia have removed ...

Crews in Virginia believe they have found the elusive 1887 time capsule that had been placed in the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond ... Carlton McCarthy’s “Detailed Minutiae ...

The pedestal on which a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stood for 131 years in Richmond ... Lee statue's removal because it was on state-owned land. The Virginia Supreme ...

A monument dedicated to the abolition of slavery was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, two weeks after a statue of Confederate ... The monument on Brown's Island also honors the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A project almost 10 years in the making came to fruition on Wednesday at Brown’s Island. Now visitors will see two bronze statues dedicated to African American’s fight ...