Harry F. Byrd Sr., the late Virginia governor, U.S. senator and the architect of the state’s Massive Resistance to racial desegregation of public schools, is remembered with a statue on the grounds of the State Capitol.
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Low-key efforts waged to remove statue of segregationist Harry F. Byrd Sr. from Capitol Square
In the midst of widespread efforts to remove Confederate memorials, a similar change may be on the way for Richmond’s Capitol Square.
Statue of archsegregationist remains in Capitol Square
Richmond and other Virginia localities are on track to gain permission from the General Assembly to take down Confederate statues.
