Amid Lawsuits to Stop Them, Virginia City Votes to Sell Off Confederate Statue
Posted on April 19, 2017
The progressive city council of Charlottesville, Virginia, voted to tear down two monuments erected almost 100 years ago to Confederate Generals Lee and Jackson and to erase all vestiges of the town’s Confederate heritage.
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