Editing Charlottesville, Virginia (section)

===Conflict over Confederate symbols===
{{see also|Unite the Right rally|Charlottesville car attack}}
Starting in the 2010s Charlottesville received national attention because of local conflict between those who did and those who did not want Confederate symbols removed. ''[[The Washington Post]]'' has reported that "Nowhere has this clash been more fraught than in Charlottesville, where parks have been renamed, then renamed again, streets have been re-christened, and stickers bearing white supremacist slogans go up as quickly as activists can remove them."<ref>{{cite news
|title=Charlottesville won't celebrate Thomas Jefferson's birthday. It will mark slavery's end instead
|first=Michael E.
|last=Miller 
|date=March 1, 2020
|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/01/charlottesville-thomas-jefferson-birthday-slavery/}}</ref>

City attempts to remove statues of [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Stonewall Jackson]] from downtown parks have been the subject of extensive, unresolved litigation. In August 2017, [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] groups opposed to their removal organized the "[[Unite the Right rally]]" to protest against the removal of the [[Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia)|''Robert E. Lee'']] statue from then Lee Park, subsequently renamed [[Emancipation Park (Charlottesville, Virginia)|Emancipation Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/15/organizers-and-leaders-charlottesvilles-deadly-rally-raised-money-paypal/|title=Organizers and leaders of Charlottesville's Deadly Rally Raised Money With PayPal|last=Southern Poverty Law Center|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|first=Hate Watch Staff|access-date=2017-08-17}}</ref> After the rally, a [[Charlottesville car attack|white nationalist drove a car into protesters]], resulting in the death of counter-protester [[Charlottesville car attack#Victims|Heather Heyer]] and causing injuries to 19 other counter-protesters.<ref name="HeimWaPo">Joe Heim, Ellie Silverman, T. Rees Shapiro & Emma Brown (August 12, 2017), [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html "One dead as car strikes crowds amid protests of white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville; two police die in helicopter crash"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812103231/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html|date=August 12, 2017}}, ''The Washington Post''.</ref> The incident became national news and Charlottesville became a symbol of political turbulence nationwide.<ref>{{cite news |title=What Charlottesville Changed |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/12/charlottesville-anniversary-supremacists-protests-dc-virginia-219353/ |access-date=24 February 2024 |agency=[[Politico Magazine]] |date=12 August 2018}}</ref> The city succeeded in the removal of the Lee and Jackson statues on July 10, 2021,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Paviour |first1=Ben |title=Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue That Sparked A Deadly Rally |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/10/1014926659/charlottesville-removes-robert-e-lee-statue-that-sparked-a-deadly-rally |access-date=24 February 2024 |agency=[[NPR]] |date=10 July 2021}}</ref> in addition to a statue of [[Meriwether Lewis]], [[William Clark]] and [[Sacagawea]] of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vera |first1=Amir |title=Charlottesville removes Lewis and Clark statue featuring Sacagawea along with Confederate statues |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/us/sacagawea-lewis-and-clark-statue-charlottesville-virginia/index.html |access-date=24 February 2024 |agency=[[CNN]] |date=13 July 2021}}</ref>