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Since July 2021, Charlottesville’s surrendered generals have been awaiting their fate. Charlottesville’s City Council’s vote to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center now faces a lawsuit.
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Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate, melt the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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Charlottesville’s City Council is being sued over its decision to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee makes a last ride past the county courthouse in July 2021. Lee’s fate is undetermined as a lawsuit over ownership works through the courts.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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ANDREW SHURTLEFF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Since July, Charlottesville’s surrendered Generals have been awaiting their fate in a storage facility off Avon Street. On Monday, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
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Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to donate the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the statue.
The local African American museum plans to melt the statue down and transform it into a new work of public art.
