An African-American museum has proposed melting down a statue of Robert E. Lee that was recently taken down in Charlottesville, and then using the bronze material to create new artwork
Other would-be owners, which include arts groups and historical societies, have offered to pay as much as $100,000 for the two statues, though the Jefferson School is only seeking the Lee monument.
Gregory Downs, a historian at the University of California at Davis, praised the Jefferson School’s proposal as a creative way to “confront the past and help people better understand the past.” While some advocate putting removed Confederate iconography in a museum, he noted that there were too many such monuments for institutions to physically hold. “There’s also the danger that a museum or park holding Confederate statues could turn into a shrine” for extremists, Downs said.Lee’s 26-feet-high Charlottesville monument was installed in 1924, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was undergoing a revival and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation were widespread across the nation.
The Washington Post before the sculpture was removed. “It hasn’t ended. We’re targeted all the time. We have to watch what we’re doing.”were taken down in 2020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a sharp increase fromBut some historians expressed concern about the increasing number of statue takedowns.
Downs, the California professor, said that there were many other Civil War heroes Virginians could admire. He suggested they look into John Mercer Langston — a prominent Black abolitionist who helped recruit African American troops into the U.S. military, or other Virginians who had stayed loyal to the Union.
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