@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.
4/Future statue: Governor Wilder, whose election was an achievement that not only made history, but changed the course of history. Wilder's election paved the way for the election of Barack Obama, for whom #Virginia voted twice. @FreePressRVA
5/ Harry Byrd should keep his statue but with a panel telling his role in Massive Resistance and Jim Crow. AND Lynwood Holton deserves a statue for integrating Virginia’s schools. @timkaine @AnneHolton Our history is complex.
6/Everything should be on an App, like Yorktown battlefield, so people can have self-tours and learn more about Virginia's long and complex history. This adds to the story, costs much less, and increases learning real history and is good for tourism. #rvanews #RVA #rvacouncil
7/ This is The Story of Virginia. That's how we got here. We should tell it all. @VirginiaMuseum @RTDOpinions #rvanews @CBS6 @NBC12 @bluevirginia #RVA @rvabizsense @VentureRVA @rvalighthouse @vatourismpr #rvacouncil Saves $$ for @RPS_Schools @RTDBusiness
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