2021 National Maritime Awards Show – 6 May 2021 Copy – National Maritime Historical Society seahistory.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seahistory.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 22, 2020
Ten Confederate statues are still on display in the Capitol building after the removal of Virginia s Robert E. Lee sculpture.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
The removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol building Monday leaves 10 other Confederate sculptures on display in the complex, untouched by the reckoning over racially charged symbols that toppled statues in cities across the nation.
The ones in the Capitol are protected by the heavily guarded halls of Congress and by law.
“It’s not like changing a Wikipedia entry, that’s for certain,” said Tim Krepp, author of Capitol Hill Haunts. “It is a bit of a process.”