With one vote, Charlottesville’s relationship with Thomas Jefferson just turned more complicated. The Virginia city, enveloped in the legacy of the Founding Father, will no longer mark his birthday on April 13 as an official holiday. It will instead celebrate Freedom and Liberation Day on March 3, commemorating when thousands of slaves were emancipated in 1865 after Union forces arrived in the city near the end of the Civil War.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 05, 2019 20:05 UTC