Charlottesville

[shahr-luhts-vil]

noun

1. a city in central Virginia.

Example Sentences

At the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., torch-bearing young men shouted, “Jews will not replace us!”

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Two years later, a white supremacist mob carrying Confederate and Nazi flags in support of the so-called “great replacement theory,” a racist fantasy about a plot to diminish the influence of white people, marched in Charlottesville, Va., inciting a riot and killing one.

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The 1924 bronze sculpture by Henry Shrady and Leo Lentelli was deeded to Charlottesville’s Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Black-led nonprofit, whose members had it cut up, the pieces melted down and then recast in the image of stacked gold bricks, awaiting repurposing.

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The Lee statue’s partner, an imposing 1921 Charlottesville equestrian sculpture of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and his famous horse, Little Sorrel, by Charles Keck, was the raw material for Kara Walker’s devastating piece at the Brick.

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They appear in the museum just as they looked when they were removed from parks and plazas in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., respectively.

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