Major contractors, all white, kept turning down former Gov. Ralph Northam's office when it went looking for someone willing to remove the Robert E. Lee Monument.
Devon Henry looks at a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill. Photo: Parker Michels-Boyce/Washington Post via Getty Images
in the Washington Post this week, calling him "the man who finally drove the Confederates out of Richmond."Henry, who is Black, would go on to oversee the removal of 24 Confederate statues in Virginia and North Carolina — the most recent of whichIn the process, he ended up fulfilling a prophecy by Richmond civil rights activist and newspaper editor John Mitchell after Black laborers hoisted Lee onto his pedestal back in 1890.
But he said he had experience with the symbolism and weight monuments can carry as the general contractor for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, which helped inform his decision to take the job.He graduated from Norfolk State University and rose through the ranks at General Electric before pouring his savings into starting his construction business.Traffic control set up barriers at the wrong intersection.
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