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Robert Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia.

Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty

Crews have removed the Robert E. Lee statue, one of the largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy in the United States, from Monument Avenue Wednesday morning. After a year of major protests and demands for all representation of oppression to be taken down….finally the 13-ton, bronze likeness of Lee on a horse was hoisted off its 40-foot pedestal, 131 years after it was erected in the former capital of the Confederacy.

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