Charlottesville removes statue at center of 2017 white nationalist rally
The monument of Stonewall Jackson, erected in 1921, is lifted from its pedestal in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Eze Amos/The New York Times.
by Hawes Spencer and Michael Levenson
CHARLOTTESVILLE
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, workers removed the statue Saturday, along with a nearby monument to Stonewall Jackson, another Confederate general.
The larger-than-life-sized statue of Lee was hoisted off its granite base shortly after 8 a.m. as a crowd of about 200 looked on. As the flatbed truck carrying the bronze statue rumbled down East Jefferson Street, a toot of the trucks horn prompted cheers and applause.