Scroll to continue SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too. So the statue of the Confederate general ...

Workers at an undisclosed foundry poured molten bronze from Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue into the mold of an ingot. Ézé Amos / Swords into Plowshares Organizers had wanted to melt down ...

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that once stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down at a ceremonial event. After both cultural and legal battles, the statue of ...

Check out the video below, featuring incredible footage of metalworkers melting down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. I shed no tears over it, but it appears Lee did. As The ...

The statue of Robert E. Lee that stood in Charlottesville was incinerated ... The group had a hard time finding someone that would melt down the metal and the foundry they did use is owned by ...

Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly ... community,” she said of the organization’s decision to melt the statue. “We didn’t want to send it down the road to another ...

Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white ... after it proposed a Swords into Plowshares project that would melt the statue and repurpose it into “public art that expresses the ...

I’m proud to announce today we have fulfilled our promise to the city and to our supporters to melt Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee,” she said. Since it acquired the bronze ...

(RNS) — Community leaders in Charlottesville, Virginia, have melted down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the removal ... attempt to halt efforts to melt the monument down.