“Blood and Soil!” “You will not replace us!” “Jews will not replace us!” These were the chants of a young, white, largely male crowd marching on the University of Virginia lawn on the evening of August 11, 2017. The next day, these white supremacists rallied to protest efforts to remove a 26-foot equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee that had been erected in 1923 from a prominent Charlottesville park. The day turned deadly when one white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians, killing counterprotestor Heather Heyer. Later that month, the city council voted unanimously to cover the Lee statue and a 1921 statue of Stonewall Jackson in black tarps as symbols of mourning for Heyer’s death. On February 27, 2018, Judge Richard E. Moore ordered the coverings removed, citing citizens’ rights to view the statues, and on April 30, 2019, he ruled against removal of the monuments under a law protecting war memorials. On April 1, 2020, however, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned that ruling. The city council voted unanimously, on June 7, 2021, to remove both statues and did so on July 10, 2021.