Seven busts, a statue and a plaque — all honoring Confederate figures — were quietly removed from the Virginia Capitol overnight on orders from the state's House Speaker.
Confederate statues have been removed from the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, shown here in January.Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images
"Virginia has a story to tell that extends far beyond glorifying the Confederacy and its participants," Filler-Corn, the Virginia legislature's first female speaker,."The Confederacy's primary objective in the Civil War was to preserve an ideology that maintained the enslavement of human beings. Now is the time to provide context to our Capitol to truly tell the Commonwealth's whole history.
The stealth action won plaudits from Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Chairman Del. Lamont Bagby. He dismissed the removed items as"misguided symbols that honored a lost cause" that should be"relegated to a space outside of the people's Capitol." But a Republican member of Virginia's state senate condemned the Confederate monuments' overnight eviction.
Other Confederate leaders whose likenesses were removed from the capitol include Gen. Jeb Stuart, Confederate Navy Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, and former Virginia governor Fitzhugh Lee. Most of the busts were installed in an era ranging from the Great Depression through the early 1950s.
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