Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia To Be Removed

The state of Virginia announced yesterday that the infamous Confederate monument of General Robert E. Lee will be removed. 
In 1890—25 years after the Civil War ended—Betty and Roger Gregory gave a parcel of their land to the state of Virginia for the erection of the Robert E. Lee monument. State officials explained in a press release that the land was granted “a generation after the Civil War,” calling the effort part of a larger “historical movement that soug