The Charlottesville, Virginia, City Council voted unanimously at a special emergency meeting on July 10 to remove a statue of 19th-century explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea from the city.
The decision was made shortly after the crew finished dismantling the city’s statues of Confederate commanders Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The city council set aside about $1 million to cover the removal of all three statues.
