Protests over the plan to remove the statue morphed into the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art.
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Charlottesville-based Black history museum, said Thursday that the statue had been today!
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