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The Robert E. Lee won the race. [191] The steamboat inspired the 1912 song Waiting for the Robert E. Lee by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe Gilbert. [192] In more modern times, the USS Robert E. Lee, a George Washington-class submarine built in 1958, was named for Lee, [193] as was the M3 Lee tank, produced in 1941 and 1942.
Lee Street, named for CSA Gen. Robert E. Lee, became Liberty Street. Jacksonville. Following a petition with 160,000 signatures, Nathan Bedford Forrest High School (1959), originally an all-white school named in protest against school desegregation, renamed Westside High School in 2014 after decades of controversy. [172] [173] [174]
(Reuters) - Two weeks after Richmond, Virginia, removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had prompted protests over racial injustice, the city unveiled a new monument on ...
Lee sculpture covered in black tarpaulin following the Unite the Right rally of 2017. The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.
A bronze ingot melted from the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is shown during a news conference on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Charlottesville, Va. (Cal Cary/The Daily Progress via AP)
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 ...
The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site. [4] Before its removal on September 8, 2021, [ 5 ] the monument honored Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee , depicted on a horse atop a large marble base ...
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