On May 25, 2020, after the death of George Floyd by the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, groups such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and various other political groups actively called for the removal of Confederate monuments, and other historical monuments, throughout the United States. Richmond, Virginia, one of the three former Confederate capitals for the Confederate States of America, had large monuments dedicated to Jefferson Davis, General Robert Edward Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson on it’s street Monument Avenue. All of the Confederate statutes, except for the one of General Robert Edward Lee, which is on land owned by a descendent of Lee, was removed in 2020. Only the foundations of those monuments remain.
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