When an enormous statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its pedestal Wednesday in the former capital of the Confederacy and carted off to storage, many civil rights activists saw it as a ...

A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to ...

After a year-long legal battle, the Robert E Lee monument came down in the former pro-slavery Confederate capital. The statue was erected in 1890 and the fight to have it removed was re-ignited ...

Vance took issue with the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove Confederate General Robert E. Lee's statue in Virginia. Related: JD Vance Posted Pictures Next to Gun Show Vendors ...

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its threatened removal became a ...

Confederate Army General Robert E ... known as the Jim Crow laws were adopted. The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, went up in 1924. A year later, the US Congress voted ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

After a year-long legal battle, the Robert E Lee monument came down in the former pro-slavery Confederate capital. The statue was erected in 1890 and the fight to have it removed was re-ignited ...