"If he could see this in the physical form with us, I promise he would give all of y'all hugs. The statue gradually became the center of a fashionable all-white neighborhood along Richmond's tree-lined Monument Avenue.âFew doubt that in the course of ï¬ve years the Lee circle will be in the very heart of the fashionable neighborhood of Richmond,â a newspaper reported around the time of the dedication. All rights reservedRobert E. Lee's oldest son, George Washington Custis Lee (far right), reviews a Confederate veterans' reunion parade in front of the newly inaugurated memorial to Jefferson Davis in 1907.Conservative Democrats resolved to break this formidable alliance by reviving the fading passions for the Lost Cause. His family members went to the inaugural event held by the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project — a partnership between the George Floyd Foundation and Change.org.Be in the know. A hologram showing George Floyd was projected in front of a Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday night. âHe had his opinions and I have mine.â In the end, the request was soundly rejected 17 to 8.Erected in 1919, a monument to General Stonewall Jackson dominated the intersection of Monument Avenue and a street recently renamed Arthur Ashe Boulevard in honor of the African-American tennis star who grew up in Richmond.Yet Lee remains. Along what was dubbed Monument Avenue, statues of General âJebâ Stuart and Confederate President Jefferson Davis were unveiled in 1907. A press release says … For the moment, a court injunction prevents that. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.The George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project aims to "transform spaces that were formerly occupied by racist symbols of America's dark Confederate past into a message of hope, solidarity and forward-thinking change," according to the news release. "We going to put our foot on the pedal and we're going to take care of business because if we stop now we'll never get finished," Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, said Tuesday.In the coming days, the hologram will also appear where former Confederate statues stood in Georgia, North Carolina and more, mirroring the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides, as a "symbolic call to continue the fight for racial justice," the news release said. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.The image was designed by Kaleida Hologram Co. and projected by Quince Imaging of Virginia. A statue of Robert E. Lee has stood in historic city of Richmond, Virginia, for over a century. His memorial rests on land given by private owners to the state on the condition that âshe will faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it.â In June, a great-grandson of one of those owners sued to force Virginia to keep that promise, though the stateâs attorney general called it âa grandiose monument to a racist insurrectionâ that was âdesigned to demean Black Virginiansâ and should be taken down.