When the Toppled Statue Is of Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather
Protesters with shields and gas masks wait for police action as they surround the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, Tuesday June 23, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The state has ordered the area around the statue closed from sunset to sunrise. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)/ Clayton Wickham, 28, said he used to think of the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather as “just a statue that had my name on it that was kind of cool to walk by every now and then.” But as Wickham learned more about his ancestor, the statue became a ...
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