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At 4 am on Monday, in the crypt of the United States Capitol, a team of workers removed the statue of Robert E. Lee that since 1909 has represented the Commonwealth of Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Three years after neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, and their white nationalist allies rioted in Charlottesville, Va., over proposals to remove a statue in that city that honored the general who commanded the Civil War forces that defended slavery, one of the most recognizable monuments to the Confederacy and its treasonous generals was removed from the citadel of American governance in Washington, D.C. ....

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Virginia removes Lee statue from U.S. Capitol

BY ANDREW CAIN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia removed its statue of Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol overnight, the latest move in the state s purge of Confederate iconography in a year of reckoning on racial injustice.
Each state gets two statues in the Statuary Hall collection. Since 1909 Virginia s statues have depicted George Washington and Lee. A state panel last week recommended to the General Assembly that Virginia replace its Lee statue with a statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Johns.
We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwealth and our country,â Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement Monday. ....

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Virginia removes Lee statue from U.S. Capitol overnight. Monument honoring civil rights hero will replace it.

Virginia removes Lee statue from U.S. Capitol overnight. Monument honoring civil rights hero will replace it.
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Justice In Statues: Robert E. Lee Replaced By Girl Who Sparked Brown V. Board Of Education

The Commission on Historical Statues in the United States Capitol has recommended that civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns represent Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection, replacing the existing statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Gov. Ralph Northam has also announced that his proposed budget includes dearly $500,000 to replace the statue.
“On April 23, 1951, sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns led a student walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, protesting the overcrowded and inferior conditions of the all-Black school compared to those of White students at nearby Farmville High School,” a release said.
Her actions got the support of NAACP lawyers Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill, who took up her case and filed a lawsuit that would later be one fo five cases the United States Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka when it declared segregation unconstitutional. ....

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