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  1. Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument. Antonin Mercié, Robert E. Lee Monument, 1890, bronze (removed from Monument Avenue, Richmond Virginia, September 9, 2021) This video was recorded in July 2021. speakers: Dr. Sarah Beetham and Dr. Beth Harris.

  2. The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site. [4] Before its removal on September 8, 2021, [ 5 ] the monument honored Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee , depicted on a horse atop a large marble base that stood over 60 feet (18 m) tall.

  3. Sep 14, 2023 · In October 2020, the New York Times named the Lee Monument as the most influential piece of post-World War II protest art in the country. Simultaneously in June 2020, Governor Ralph Northam’s administration was trying to remove the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee from the Lee Monument.

  4. Aug 23, 2024 · The Robert E. Lee monument, which was located at the center of a small park in downtown Charlottesville, was a bronze sculpture on a granite pedestal, the two together standing approximately twenty-six feet high, twelve feet long, and eight feet wide.

  5. Jul 16, 2020 · Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd, the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, erected in 1890, has been a focus of protests, graffiti, and public pressure calling for the removal of this offensive symbol of Confederate aspiration.

  6. Sep 8, 2021 · Plans to take down the Robert E. Lee statue were first announced over a year ago, in June of 2020. However, lawsuits brought forth by the residents of Richmond's Monument Avenue, including Helen Marie Taylor and William Gregory, delayed the removal of the statue.

  7. Oct 26, 2023 · Hadley Green. Oct. 26 at 3:00 p.m. SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too. So the statue of the ...

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