The statue of a Confederate soldier and cannon and cannonball monuments were removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday and will be transferred to a battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley.
The statue, erected in 1909 and funded throughout the county, the city of Charlottesville and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, located in front of a courthouse in Albemarle County, was broadcast live on the county’s Facebook page.
The Albemarle County Board of Oversight voted unanimously last month to remove the statue, which was near the site of a fatal 2017 showdown between white supremacists and counter-executives.
A statue of Robert E. Lee, who sparked the 2017 protest, is still in the midst of a legal war over his dismissal.
The effort to tear down Confederate monuments revived this year amid a national account of systemic racism and police brutality after the police killings and shootings of several black Americans, adding George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and more recently Jacob Blake in Kenosha. Wis.
Four other statues of Confederate leaders were removed from Charlottesville over the summer.
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