US city removes last public Confederate statue

Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, ordered Confederate symbols removed amid the 2020 racial justice protests across the US. The US city of Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War, has removed its last public statue commemorating a Confederate general. Richmond began removing its remaining public Confederate statues in February, and has said that the statue of Hill will be given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. However, most Confederate statues were not erected immediately after the Civil War ended in 1865, but during later periods that often coincided with violent reaction to the expansion of the rights for Black people. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in the US, the first period to see a rise in Confederate statues began around 1900, as states moved to enact racist segregation edicts, known as Jim Crow laws, that denied Black people basic rights.