The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016

by Julian M. Hayter, Amy L. Howard, Thad Williamson

Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhelming public support grew for removing Richmond's Confederate monuments. Activists then transformed the remaining statue of Robert E. Lee into a shrine to African American resolve, to the Black Lives Matter movement, and to Black victims of police brutality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469681285
• ISBN13: 9781469681283
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages