Year of racial awakening may topple Richmond’s last Confederate statue
Dec 02, 2020
3 minutes
The long march down fabled Monument Avenue of Richmond, Virginia, may finally be at its end.
For more than a century, enormous bronze statues of Confederate leaders have paraded through the city’s paved artery. And since the summer’s protests against police brutality, they’ve all come tumbling down – except for one.
Towering 60 feet high, Richmond’s monument to Robert E. Lee has remained physically and legally out of reach. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s plans to remove the statue have so far been delayed by a lawsuit. But in late October, a
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