The Downing of Lee in Richmond, Virginia
Click here to read the statement by the Virginia Defenders
on the taking down of the Richmond statue of Robert E. Lee
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September 8, 2021
September 7, 2021
However, by what process and with whom was there agreement that the 80+ memorials, the Marcus-David Peters Circle sign and the community garden were to be dismantled and claimed as artifacts?
The Defenders' first blow was struck in 2007: