Rewriting history was the goal.
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Virginia State Police and Capitol Police form a line during a pro-Confederate rally at the Lee Statue in Richmond on Sept. 16, 2017.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND, TIMES-DISPATCH
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A statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in Richmond is shown in this photo in the collection of the Library of Congress.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PHOTO
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Michael Carter traces his ancestry back to slaves at the Shirley Plantation in Charles City.
LUCA POWELL, Times-Dispatch
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The Jefferson Davis memorial on Monument Avenue is dedicated in 1907.
COOK COLLECTION, THE VALENTINE
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Lauralyn Clark, a home worker whose great grandmother was enslaved, points to her "Unions for All" shirt as she stands in front of the "Rumors of War" statue outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA Friday, June 19, 2020.
BOB BROWN, THE TIMES-DISPATCH
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The monument of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America, is removed in Richmond in July 2020.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH
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A Confederate monument is shown near Hanover County Historic Courthouse.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
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Crowd chants 'Tear them down! Tear them down!' about the Confederate monuments.
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Troutman Cliff of Richmond walks with a Confederate flag at the Robert E. Lee monument in February 2012.
P. KEVIN MORLEY/Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Toppled by protesters in 2020, the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that once stood on Monument Avenue in Richmond is shown at The Valentine museum in 2022, on loan from the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
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