Topline The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became the focal point of a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be handed over to a local African-American museum that plans to melt it down to create a new piece of public artwork, ending a years-long battle over the controversial monument’s fate. The statue of Robert E. Lee festooned with a “Black Lives Matter” banner is seen at Emancipation … [+] Park on August 12, 2020, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Eze Amos/Getty Images Key Facts The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday morning to hand ownership of the statue over to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which runs a local museum to “highlight Charlottesville’s African American history and culture of the African diaspora… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Charlottesville Robert E. Lee Statue To Be Melted Down By African-American Heritage Center
