Statue of Harry Byrd Removed

“Workers removed a statue of Harry F. Byrd Sr., a former Virginia governor, U.S. senator and staunch segregationist, from the state’s Capitol Square on Wednesday morning,” the Associated Press reports.

“Byrd, a Democrat, ran the state’s most powerful political machine for decades until his death in 1966 and was considered the architect of the state’s racist ‘massive resistance’ policy to public school integration.”