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@RTDOpinions The Monument Avenue Commission had a plan to tell The Story of Virginia. 1. Remove Jeff Davis, who was ONLY about the Confederacy. Add panels of historical context to the rest, telling the real history. #RVA #RVAprotests 1/
2/2. Add statues of African Americans, starting with The Fourteen African American Union soldiers who won a battle outside Richmond and were awarded Medals of Honor. 3. Rebrand Monument Avenue to tell The Story of Virginia. @VirginiaMuseum @StyleWeekly @RTDCulture
3/Add statues of NASA mathematician Virginia Johnson who calculated John Glenn's trajectory into space, Mary Jackson, NASA Engineer for whom NASA Headquarters are now named. @NASA @ScienceMusofVA Keep fellow scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury.
