Charlottesville will melt down Robert E Lee statue at centre of 2017 hate rally

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The statue will be remade into a piece of public art focused on racial justice and inclusion

For many of the city’s residents, the statue, of a man who was willing to join a cause that would secede from the United States before giving up slavery, was a symbol of racist violence.

 

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