Workers found a box while dismantling a pedestal that once held a Jefferson Davis statue in Richmond, Virginia. It's being stored in a secure location by the city until the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia figures out what to do with it
"Until we see what's inside, it's just a box, but most historians believe it is a time capsule," James Nolan, the mayor's press secretary wrote to CNN on Friday.Protesters tore down and vandalized the statue of the president of the Confederacy in June 2020, but the pedestal remained. Many statues of Confederate leaders came down that summer in cities across the US as widespread protests denounced racism and oppression.
"Our institution takes very seriously the responsibility to manage these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten: that is the glorification of those who led the fight to enslave African Americans and destroy the Union," Marland Buckner, interim executive director of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, said in a city news release from December 30.
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