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Richmond is removing its last remaining Confederate statue
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By Michelle Watson and Nicole Chavez, CNN The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing Confederate monument on Monday. City workers lifted the bronze statue depicting Gen. A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War, f…
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RICHMOND, Va, (AP) -- Work to relocate Richmond's final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay
The city of Richmond has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue. The city that was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War removed its other Confederate
By Michelle Watson and Nicole Chavez, CNN The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing Confederate monument on Monday. City workers lifted the bronze statue depicting Gen. A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War, f…
The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
It took just minutes to free the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base before a crane using yellow straps looped under the statue’s arms lifted it onto a bed of tires on a flatbed truck.
The city is almost done relocating dozens of statues of Confederate monuments in a campaign that began two years ago. The last statue to be moved is that of Confederate Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill.
The monument of Gen. A.P. Hill was removed Monday, more than two years after Richmond, Virginia, began to purge itself of symbols representing racial oppression.
City workers lifted the bronze statue depicting Gen. A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed during the Third Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War, from its base at the intersection of the c...
"Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more Confederate statues than any city in the United States. Collectively, we have closed that chapter," the city's mayor said.
