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Suit filed to prevent Lee statue removal
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A pro-monuments group has filed a lawsuit against Charlottesville and its City Council, opening the next chapter in an ongoing saga that could see the city’s statue of Robert E. Lee removed from its namesake park downtown.
Organizers of the Monument Fund, a nonprofit corporation, announced Monday that the lawsuit aims to “stop the city from removing the Robert E. Lee monument from Lee Park and from radically reconfiguring both the Lee and [Thomas ‘Stonewall’] Jackson parks.”
More: http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/l...cle_3093c5e0-0d6d-11e7-b80c-b35bede4ed1a.html
- BY CHRIS SUAREZ
- Mar 20, 2017
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A pro-monuments group has filed a lawsuit against Charlottesville and its City Council, opening the next chapter in an ongoing saga that could see the city’s statue of Robert E. Lee removed from its namesake park downtown.
Organizers of the Monument Fund, a nonprofit corporation, announced Monday that the lawsuit aims to “stop the city from removing the Robert E. Lee monument from Lee Park and from radically reconfiguring both the Lee and [Thomas ‘Stonewall’] Jackson parks.”
More: http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/l...cle_3093c5e0-0d6d-11e7-b80c-b35bede4ed1a.html