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United Daughters of the Confederacy would lose Virginia tax breaks, if Youngkin signs off
Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who hasn’t said whether he supports it. The Richmond-based women’s group was established after the Civil War and helped erect many of the country’s Confederate monuments. A bill that reached final passage Monday would end an exemption...
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Confederate memorial removed from Arlington National Cemetery
A century-old memorial to Confederate soldiers is now in the process of being removed from Arlington National Cemetery after a ruling by a federal judge. News4’s Jackie Bensen explains how legal challenges persisted until hours before the removal began.
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Work resumes on Arlington Confederate memorial removal
A century-old memorial to Confederate soldiers was removed from Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday after a ruling by a federal judge.
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Confederate memorial removed from Arlington National Cemetery
A century-old memorial to Confederate soldiers was removed from Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday after a ruling by a federal judge. Photos provided by cemetery officials show a crew using a crane to hoist up the bronze statue near sunrise. “In accordance with the recent court ruling, the Army has resumed the deliberate process of removing the Confederate Memorial from…
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Judge issues order keeping Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery for now
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria seeking the restraining order. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday. Work to remove the memorial...
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Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery
A Confederate memorial’s days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered. A cemetery official says the memorial is to be removed from the northern Virginia cemetery in the coming days. It’s part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military facilities. The decision ignores a demand from some Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to remove...
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Confederate memorial to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery
The removal of the statue is a part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, an Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson said.
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Robert E. Lee statue that prompted deadly protest in Virginia has been melted down
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Charlottesville-based Black history museum, said Thursday that the statue had been destroyed. The Charlottesville City Council voted in...
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Confederate General's Remains Moved to Virginia Hometown
The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and the general’s remains buried beneath after a court battle....
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West Point to Remove Confederate Symbols From Campus
The U.S. Military Academy in West Point will begin taking down memorials commemorating figures of the Confederacy. During the holiday break, a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform will be removed from the school’s library, where it has been hanging since the 1950s. It will also remove the stone bust of Lee at Reconciliation Plaza....
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Virginia Capital Removes Its Last City-Owned Confederate Monument
The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.
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Richmond's Final City-Owned Confederate Statue Set to be Removed
An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week. The statue is of Gen. A.P. Hill.