The desegregation of schools in the United States that occurred after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case in 1954 was a monumental moment in American history. One of the people that had a
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed with ease Monday from the U.S. Capitol, but the towering statue of the slavery-defending general will remain on Monument Avenue for now, courtesy of a Virginia Supreme Court ruling.
The stateâs highest court refused to give Gov. Ralph S. Northam what he had hoped forâ the legal right to remove the six-story Lee figure that stands over Richmond.
The Virginia Supreme Court rejected the stateâs legal request to dissolve a lower courtâs order that blocks the governor from taking down the state-owned, white supremacist image still in place on Monument Avenue.