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Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument. by Dr. Sarah Beetham and Dr. Beth Harris. 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.
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.
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Jul 27, 2017 · Confederate monuments began going up in Richmond not long after the end of the Civil War. In 1875, a statue to Stonewall Jackson was erected on the Capitol grounds. However, the statues that now line Monument Avenue went up later, beginning 25 years after the end of the war, in 1890, with Robert E. Lee.
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. At twenty feet high, atop a forty-foot base, the bronze Confederate general sits on his horse as if ...
Sep 14, 2023 · September 14, 2023. By Christina K. Vida. Elisa H. Wright Curator of General Collections. Robert E. Lee died on October 12, 1870, in Lexington, Virginia. The following week, former Confederates Jubal Early and John Mosby organized a Lee Monument Association in Lexington, while the women of the Hollywood Memorial Association in Richmond ...
Aug 23, 2024 · A statue of Robert E. Lee, sculpted by Henry Merwin Shrady and Leo Lentelli, is unveiled in Charlottesville. 1951. The Charlottesville city council rejects proposals to install a parking garage underneath the statue of Robert E. Lee and iron fences around it and the nearby Stonewall Jackson statue. June 19, 1996.
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