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FILE - In this July 7, 2020, file photo, crews attach straps to the statue Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo provided by the Office of the Governor of Virginia shows workers removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington. The statue that represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years was removed after a state commission decided that Lee was not a fitting symbol for the state.
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, Joan Cobbs, left, sister of civil rights legend Barbara Johns, shakes hands with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, right, after a portrait of Barbara Johns, center, was unveiled in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. There will soon be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
FILE - In this July 21, 2008, file photo, Roderick Johns, brother of Civil Rights activist Barbara Johns, takes a moment as he holds a photo of his sister at the newly dedicated Virginia Civil Rights Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. There will soon be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, a bronze statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier, titled "At Ready," is removed outside of the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, Va. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2020, file photo, demonstrators secure a rope around the centerpiece of a solid stone obelisk before tearing it down in Santa Fe, N.M. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
FILE - In this July 24, 2020, file photo, a work crew removes the Columbus statue in Grant Park in Chicago. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
FILE - In this July 7, 2020, file photo, crews attach straps to the statue Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
Steve Helber
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2020, file photo provided by the Office of the Governor of Virginia shows workers removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington. The statue that represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years was removed after a state commission decided that Lee was not a fitting symbol for the state.
Jack Mayer
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, Joan Cobbs, left, sister of civil rights legend Barbara Johns, shakes hands with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, right, after a portrait of Barbara Johns, center, was unveiled in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. There will soon be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
BOB BROWN
FILE - In this July 21, 2008, file photo, Roderick Johns, brother of Civil Rights activist Barbara Johns, takes a moment as he holds a photo of his sister at the newly dedicated Virginia Civil Rights Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. There will soon be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
Steve Helber
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, a bronze statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier, titled "At Ready," is removed outside of the Albemarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, Va. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
Erin Edgerton
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2020, file photo, demonstrators secure a rope around the centerpiece of a solid stone obelisk before tearing it down in Santa Fe, N.M. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
Cedar Attanasio
FILE - In this July 24, 2020, file photo, a work crew removes the Columbus statue in Grant Park in Chicago. At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020. That's according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press.
NEW YORK (AP) — When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been removed just weeks before — one of at least 160 public Confederate symbols taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020, according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press ahead of releasing it.
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