Lawsuit to halt melting of Confederate statue at centre of deadly Virginia rally largely dismissed
The city of Charlottesville still faces possible legal action
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The city of Charlottesville still faces possible legal action
The bronze statue stood in a Charlottesville park near the city’s downtown mall, before city council voted to donate the monument to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
The fate of a statue that brought right-wing extremists to Charlottesville is, again, in doubt as supporters of a small museum in southwest Virginia sue the city. They say Charlottesville acted illegally when it gave a sculpture of Robert E. Lee to the African-American Heritage Center to be melted down and turned into art reflecting modern values. Sandy Hausman has that story:
It’s been a year since statues of Confederates Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson stood in Charlottesville’s downtown parks, but the controversy over the removal and the statues' fates
CHARLOTTESVILLE — It’s been a year since statues of Confederates Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson stood in Charlottesville’s downtown parks, but the controversy over the removal and the