Charlottesville, Virginia’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the focus of a violent white supremacist rally in 2017 will be taken down Saturday, the city announced.
The statue of Lee and one of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are set to be removed, the city said in a news release Friday, adding that their removals would be open to the public. The Lee statue was first erected in 1924 — nearly 60 years after the Civil War — during the height of the Jim Crow era.
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