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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

General Robert E. Lee

Crews remove one of the country's largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, September 8, 2021. (AP/Steve Helber)
September 9, 2021, 11:01 am
Former Confederate capital removes statue of Gen. Lee after years of protests
In Richmond, Virginia, onlookers cheer as 21-foot-tall bronze figure is dismantled and hauled away under heavy police presence, but no counter-protesters show up
By Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie
Workers remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park July 10, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
July 10, 2021, 6:43 am
Charlottesville removes Confederate Gen. Lee statue that sparked rally
Statue and another Confederate tribute are taken down Saturday, nearly four years after deadly violence erupted at ‘Unite the Right’ rally
By Sarah Rankin
Ku Klux Klan members on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia protesting the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments. (Chet Strange/Getty Images via JTA)
April 26, 2019, 8:08 pm
Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising Confederate general
Remarks come after Biden makes president’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ defense of white supremacists the center of his campaign launch
By Agencies
In this Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 file photo, a statue of Jefferson Davis, left, looks towards a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
September 6, 2017, 4:10 am
The US is still fighting, more than 150 years after Appomattox
The bloodshed over a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville indicates the dueling Civil War narratives are still very much a part of how Americans view their history
By JAY REEVES and Felicia Fonseca
Workers place a tarp over statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on August 23, 2017. (Screen capture/Twitter)
August 23, 2017, 11:01 pm
Charlottesville covers Confederate statue with black shroud
Move intended to symbolize city’s mourning for woman killed while protesting white supremacist rally
By Sarah Rankin and STEVE HELBER
Francis Nataf
August 23, 2017, 12:23 pm
Francis Nataf
Robert E. Lee and the month of Elul
Humanity’s cultural yardstick of values is fickle; better to uphold the personalized standards of God
Mark B. Toubin
August 19, 2017, 11:27 am
Mark B. Toubin
I went to Robert E. Lee high shool
A message to former San Antonio, Texas classmates: The time is long overdue for a name change
In this Friday, May 19, 2017, file photo, workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
August 19, 2017, 5:28 am
Confederate monuments across the US removed or vandalized
After deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, many cities move to erase symbols of the pro-slavery Civil War South
By AP
Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Virginia. (screen capture)
August 19, 2017, 4:12 am
Fear, resolve and more security at Charlottesville’s only synagogue
Congregation Beth Israel on edge after armed protesters hurled racist vitriol at worshipers and neo-Nazis threatened to burn down temple
By Ben Finley
In this Aug. 15, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump points to members of the media as he answers questions in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
August 17, 2017, 6:03 pm
Trump decries Confederate monument removals, ‘history ripped apart’
US president continues with combative tweets, attacks fellow Republicans following racially charged Charlottesville rally
By Julie Bykowicz and Jonathan Lemire
Virginia State Police in riot gear stand in front of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee before forcing white nationalists out of Emancipation Park after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared an unlawful gathering August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 16, 2017, 2:43 am
Trump’s defense of statues echoes right-wing rhetoric
In tense presser, president asks ‘where does it stop’ when it comes to taking down Confederacy-related monuments
By Michael Kunzelman
Illustrative: Matthew Heimbach, center, voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr., in front of court in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 14, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)
August 15, 2017, 2:49 am
White nationalists vow Charlottesville is just the beginning
Emboldened by weekend’s violence in Virginia, racist groups and neo-Nazis plan more events
By JAY REEVES
The statue of Confederat Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in the center of Emancipation Park the day after the Unite the Right rally devolved into violence August 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 14, 2017, 3:41 am
How Robert E. Lee went from hero to racist icon
The transformation of the confederate army general reflects changing moods in US around race, mythology and national reconciliation
By Russell Contreras
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Virginia State Police cordon off an area around the site where a car ran into a group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 13, 2017, 7:06 am
US launches federal probe into Charlottesville deadly car ramming
Investigation opened into circumstances that led a driver to plow a car into a crowd while white nationalist activists and counter-protesters clashed
By AFP
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