Credit: Some of the oldest and largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. tower over a four-lane road in Richmond — a city that may become the next ground zero in the fight over Civil War statues. The city was in the midst of studying how to add historical context to the statues when white supremacists converged on Charlottesville, and — as in other cities, but with renewed vigor here — the deadly violence that ensued sparked new calls for the statues of Monument Avenue to come down.
AP Explains: Ex-Confederate capital eyes statues’ removal
