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Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the Hill statue, which sat in the middle of a busy intersection near a school, were more complicated because the general’s remains were interred beneath it about 25 years after his death at the end of the Civil War.
Virginia Capital Removes Its Last City-Owned Confederate Monument
The statue in Richmond, which depicts General A.P. Hill, will be given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.
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