{"id":60160,"date":"2020-09-12T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60160"},"modified":"2020-09-12T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:57:14","slug":"how-to-replace-norfolks-confederate-monument-one-idea-is-to-honor-interracial-marriage-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60160","title":{"rendered":"How to replace Norfolk\u2019s Confederate monument? One idea is to honor interracial marriage pioneers."},"content":{"rendered":"

How to replace Norfolk\u2019s Confederate monument? One idea is to honor interracial marriage pioneers.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Virginian-Pilot<\/a>
\nNorfolk, Virginia
\n2020-07-07<\/p>\n

Ryan Murphy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSean and Silena Chapman, with their 6-week-old son Kevin, support erecting a statue honoring the Lovings<\/a>, the couple who successfully challenged Virginia’s interracial marriage ban<\/a> in the 1960s, where Norfolk’s Confederate monument stood. As seen Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (Stephen M. Katz\/The Virginian-Pilot)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It\u2019s June 12, 2020.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been almost three weeks since Silena and Sean Chapman brought home their third baby, Kevin.<\/p>\n

Silena, a doctor who specializes in caring for sick and premature infants, is full of energy and says she\u2019s always getting into some idea or another.<\/p>\n

Sean is reserved and gentle. He spends most of his days taking care of their two other young children. He\u2019s getting ready to start a woodworking business out of the Chesapeake<\/a> couple\u2019s Great Bridge<\/a> garage.<\/p>\n

Early that morning in downtown Norfolk<\/a>, a crane removes 16-foot-tall Johnny Reb<\/a>, the bronze Confederate<\/a> soldier who sat atop a city monument for 113 years.<\/p>\n

Silena knows the statue well. She lived for years on College Place, just a few blocks from it…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, the Chapmans are spearheading an effort to put a monument to the Lovings at Main Street and Commercial Place, where Johnny Reb once stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,20,693],"tags":[31137,31139,31141,31140,8099,31138],"class_list":["post-60160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-norfolk","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-sean-chapman","tag-silena-chapman","tag-the-virginian-pilot","tag-virginian-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60162,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60160\/revisions\/60162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}