The Robert E. Lee Memorial is a monument commemorating Robert E. Lee, formerly installed in Roanoke, Virginia's Lee Plaza, in the United States. The stone memorial was approximately 10 feet (3.0 m) tall, and was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the fall of 1960, just as the first two Black students were enrolled in the all-white school system. The monument's erection coincided with the run up to the centennial of the Civil War in 1961.