page_title: George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia
hierarchical_section_title: George Floyd protests in Richmond, Virginia
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo I took of protests in Richmond, Virginia in relation to the George Floyd protests. Photo by Tyler Walter.
context_page_description: Richmond, Virginia, experienced a series of protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Richmond was the first city in the Southeastern United States to see rioting over Floyd's death. Richmond, formerly the capital of the short-lived Confederate States of America, saw much arson and vandalism to monuments connected with that polity, particularly along Monument Avenue.
  Protests began in late May 2020 and by mid-August 2020 had gradually waned down. Given the city's Confederate roots, many of the areas of attack by protesters were the statues along Monument Avenue, near The Fan neighborhood of Richmond. During the first wave of Floyd protests, all major monuments were defaced and sprayed with graffiti. Five statues were toppled by protesters. Some of the statues toppled included the Jefferson Davis Memorial, to the Confederacy's first and only president. Additionally, statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham were toppled. Additionally, the Howitzer Monument and the Sons of Virginia statue, were toppled by protesters.
context_section_description: Richmond, Virginia, experienced a series of protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Richmond was the first city in the Southeastern United States to see rioting over Floyd's death. Richmond, formerly the capital of the short-lived Confederate States of America, saw much arson and vandalism to monuments connected with that polity, particularly along Monument Avenue.
  Protests began in late May 2020 and by mid-August 2020 had gradually waned down. Given the city's Confederate roots, many of the areas of attack by protesters were the statues along Monument Avenue, near The Fan neighborhood of Richmond. During the first wave of Floyd protests, all major monuments (except the Arthur Ashe Monunent) were defaced and sprayed with graffiti. Five statues were toppled by protesters. Some of the statues toppled included the Jefferson Davis Memorial, to the Confederacy's first and only president. Additionally, statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham were toppled. Additionally, the Howitzer Monument and the Sons of Virginia statue, were toppled by protesters.
caption: Black Lives Matter protesters by the graffitied Robert E. Lee Monument on May 31, 2020.
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