Former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder made the controversial suggestion that the statue be placed on Monument Avenue. In the end, the city boldly upheld the decision to place the Arthur Ashe memorial on Monument Avenue, forever changing the appearance and history of Monument Avenue. This Tour is a Walking Tour.
Following the end of the Civil War, Southerners struggled to come to terms with the reality of defeat and personal loss, and created an ideology that came to be known as the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
The Lost Cause is a sociocultural movement that reinterprets the Civil War as a romanticized effort by Southerners to protect and preserve their culture, specifically through minimizing the horrors of slavery. Developed between , Monument Avenue is a fourteen-block-long, tree-lined residential boulevard between Lombardy Street and Roseneath Road.
Six monuments are located along major intersections of the avenue, five honoring Confederate military leaders and one honoring the Richmond-born tennis star Arthur Ashe. Presently, the Confederate monuments of the avenue are a highly disputed feature of the city with many residents calling for their removal.
The City of Richmond has taken steps through community engagement to evaluate the impact of its Confederate monuments in order to more appropriately interpret these sites. Stuart, General Robert E. The tour ends with the Arthur Ashe Monument, the sixth and most recent monument added to the avenue. Close Drawer. Individual Entries. Explore By Topic. Guides, Videos, and Rubrics. How to Create an Entry. Create a New Entry. How to Create a Tour.
Create a New Tour. About Clio. Clio in the Classroom. Clio for Historic Preservation. Clio for Museums. The VMFA has been praised as an obvious choice to lead artistic efforts on Monument Avenue, and the institution has stressed that it will involve community leaders, city residents, urban planners, historians and archivists. And the museum should keep in mind that the graffiti on the plinths and other pieces were legitimate art, Chipman adds. The powers that be have already gotten it wrong, says Princess Blanding, the sister of Marcus David Peters, who is running for governor as an independent.
Blanding criticizes the Library of Virginia for collecting and temporarily storing the items people left around the monument, just before the statue came down. The library is awaiting instructions from the Virginia department of general services on next steps. While the institution has been praised for protecting the works, Blanding and others say that the community should have been consulted on the future of these memorials to black lives, and have concerns about how they will be kept and honored.
What should replace them? Photograph: Reuters. Read more. Topics Virginia Art Race features. That new epoch brought political change as well. Its leader was William Mahone, an industrialist who had served with General Lee.
Conservative Democrats resolved to break this formidable alliance by reviving the fading passions for the Lost Cause. Fitzhugh Lee, who had fought under his uncle in the Civil War, led the charge. Governor Lee made erecting a monument to his uncle a priority, in order to keep the fires of Confederate memory kindled. In the general assembly put him in charge of a memorial association, and his agents fanned out across the South to solicit donations.
Here's why the Confederate battle flag made a 20th century comeback. The governor had other ideas. One of his close friends, a real-estate developer named Otway Allen, proposed donating a lot in a field a quarter mile west of the city limits. Allen envisioned the statue as the magnet to create a fashionable—and lucrative—subdivision. But the governor brushed aside the clamor, arguing that the plan would increase tax revenues for the fast-expanding city.
By then, an ominous new era of white supremacy had dawned that would last seven decades. Related: Today's toppling of Richmond's statues is the first step toward ending Confederate myths. That was just the start. African Americans across the state subsequently were largely disenfranchised and subject to a battery of new laws enforcing strict segregation.
As monuments fall, the world reckons with which relics to preserve—and which to remove. Yet Lee remains. For the moment, a court injunction prevents that. All rights reserved.
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