Charlottesville’s monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is no more.
A FIERY END
Charlottesville's statue of Robert E. Lee melted
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Foundry workers adjust pieces of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee atop a furnace to heat them in preparation for melting the statue on Oct. 21, 2023.
A foundry worker places the sword from Charlottesville's bronze monument of Robert E. Lee into a heated furnace to melt it on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
A bronze ingot cast from melting down Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee rests on sand as it cools on Oct. 21, 2023.
A foundry worker uses a plasma torch to cut the head of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in preparation for melting the statue on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
Molten bronze produced by melting Charlottesville's monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is poured from a hot crucible into ingot molds on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
A foundry worker using a plasma torch cuts away portions of a bronze horse leg from Charlottesville's monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as another worker steadies the piece on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, speaks at a press conference outside the Charlottesville courthouse where the cultural center announced that the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee it acquired from the city has been melted on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
Jalane Schmidt, director of the Memory Project at the University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy, speaks at a press conference outside the Charlottesville courthouse where it was announced that the city's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had been melted on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
Jalane Schmidt, director of the Memory Project at the University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy, embraces Olivia Gabbay at a press conference outside the Charlottesville courthouse where it was announced that the city's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had been melted on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once sat in the center of a park in downtown Charlottesville.
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The Ratcliffe Foundation had wanted to make statue part of a 'Monument Trail.'
"In hindsight, the momentum from those street protests was destined to stall."
"It sounds like they gave up," legal analyst David Heilberg told the Daily Progress. "It sounds like it's over."
