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© Jack Mayer/Office of Governor Northam Robert E. Lee's statue was removed from the U.S. Capitol Sunday night. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight. The statue has stood with America's first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia's contribution to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol for more than 100 years. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced on Monday the state will seek to have it replaced with a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Johns. "We should all be proud of this important step fo...

December 21, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The statue of Robert E. Lee that has stood at the U.S. Capitol for more than 100 years is gone. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says the statue of the Confederate general was removed Sunday night. Sen. Tim Kaine and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton watched as workmen removed the statue, which has been on display in the National Statuary Hall Collection for 111 years. Northam praised the move, calling the Confederacy “a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history.” “We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwealth and our c...

Johns was 16 when she led classmates at her all-black Virginia high school in protest of substandard conditions, leading to a lawsuit that was resolved in the US supreme court’s 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision, which declared segregation illegal. The statue, provided by Virginia, will replace one of Lee, a Confederate general during the civil war who owned slaves himself. “The Congress will continue our work to rid the Capitol of homages to hate, as we fight to end the scourge of racism in our country,” the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said in a statement. “There is no room f...

“We must start telling our complete history and remove these monuments that venerate individuals who fought to maintain slavery in this country,” tweeted Mr. Herring, a Democrat. Sculptor Edward Valentine gifted the statue to the collection in 1909 as a commemoration of the general who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until he surrendered in 1865, according to the Architect of the Capitol website. Mr. Northam, a Democrat, established the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol earlier this year to look into the removal and replacement of the monu...

‘Brave, fearless’ Barbara Johns chosen to replace Robert E. Lee at US Capitol Johns' sister: 'I jumped up and screamed a little' The younger sister of Virginia civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns said she is “ecstatic” that her sister has been chosen to replace the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the United States Capitol. and last updated 2020-12-17 20:02:00-05 RICHMOND, Va. -- The younger sister of Virginia civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns said she is “ecstatic” that her sister has been chosen to replace the statue of Confederate General Ro...