Confederate monuments continue to spark controversy. Over 2,000 Confederate memorials are still in place across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Over 2,000 Confederate memorials are still in place across the country.

During the 2020 boiling point of racial tension in America, Devon Henry and his team were contracted to remove Confederate statues in the South. ABC News’ Ike Ejiochi reports.

During the 2020 boiling point of racial tension in America, Devon Henry and his team were contracted to remove Confederate statues in the South. ABC News’ Ike Ejoichi reports.

Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos was the first Hispanic four-star general in the Army.

The city of Richmond, Virginia, hopes to donate the monument to a Black history museum.

Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill's statue was removed Monday morning, Richmond’s deputy chief administrative officer, Robert Steidel, said

The state's archeological conservator opened a 130-year-old copper box that was discovered underneath the former Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond to find artifacts dating back to the mid-1800s.

This is the second time capsule found in the pedestal of the Lee statue that historical reports say could contain prized artifacts.

Conservators in Virginia opened a time capsule that was buried in 1887 and found a host of historical items.

Historians opened a capsule over 130 years old that was discovered in the pedestal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia.

There are rumors that it contains a prized photograph of former President Abraham Lincoln's casket.

An 1887 time capsule was opened in Richmond, Virginia, Wednesday after being unearthed from the base of the now-removed statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

A time capsule estimated to be more than 130 years old, unearthed from the base of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, was opened Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia.

The land on which the pedestal sits will be transferred from state ownership to the city of Richmond.

The governor ordered the removal of the state-owned statue in June 2020.

The 12-ton statue of Robert E. Lee was finally removed after more than a century of towering over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.

The giant six-story monument on Richmond's Monument Avenue was erected in 1890.

The Confederate monument became a flashpoint in the state amid racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.

A statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee was removed from its pedestal in Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday.

A giant statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, will be removed this week.

Workers hoisted the statue off its pedestal along with a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson.

Two bronze Confederate statues at the center of yearslong debate in Charlottesville, Virginia, were removed Saturday.

After a yearslong debate, a statue of the Confederate general was removed from Market Street Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Two Confederate statues will be out of public spaces after Charlottesville leaders voted for their removal.

Martha Raddatz takes a closer look at the military's renaming of bases named for Confederate generals.

Luke Combs spoke out about his past usage of the Confederate flag during this year’s Country Radio Seminar.

New York state will no longer sell the Confederate flag or other symbols of hate at state fairs or other state buildings.

The statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was relocated from campus to a nearby Civil War museum following October allegations of racism on campus.

The Virginia Military Institute removed the statue of Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson.

A petition with more than 17,000 online signatures calls for a Confederate memorial in Boseman’s hometown of Anderson, South Carolina, to be removed and replaced by the late “Black Panther” star.

Fans want a Chadwick Boseman statue to replace a Confederate monument in his South Carolina hometown.

A Virginia middle school is changing its name to Unity Braxton in honor of a family who fought for civil rights.

The legal battle over the Richmond Robert E. Lee statue's future had a major development as a judge dropped one of the injunctions issued against its removal.

As the courts decide the fate of a controversial Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, state leaders removed a bust of the Confederate leader from the Capitol.

One of the statues was attempted to get removed by protesters in "an extremely dangerous manner," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

House overwhelmingly voted to approve legislation that would remove statues honoring figures who were part of the Confederacy from the U.S. Capitol.

"This is an action we will take...of principle and conviction," top Dem says.

On the heels of the death of George Floyd, protesters have dismounted several statues around the world after learning the history of the person the art depicts.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday issued a directive that effectively bans displays of the Confederate flag at all U.S. military bases.

Controversial statues are being removed amid worldwide civil rights protests, but there is some disagreement about what to do with them.

"White supremacy and racism have been the basis for the celebration of that flag for a long time," he said.

Georgia activists seek to remove 'Stone Mountain', the "granddaddy of Confederate monuments."

"If we plan to move forward, these monuments must come down," Timberlake wrote.

ABC's Lionel Moise spoke with the descendants of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson about the debate over statues and monuments raging across the country.

The new statues will be of Johnny Cash and civil rights activist Daisy Bates.

The 22-foot-tall monument was lifted onto a flatbed after it was ordered to be removed Columbus, Ohio's mayor.

Federal prosecutors have charged another individual allegedly involved in vandalizing the statue of former President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on ABC's Powerhouse Politics.

Rev. Robert Lee IV, descendent of Robert E. Lee said: “If I can change, you can too.”