The statue of Robert E. Lee at the University of Texas-Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin removed four Confederate monuments late Sunday night that it says have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.

“Last week, the horrific displays of hatred at the University of Virginia and in Charlottesville shocked and saddened the nation,” University of Texas at Austin President Greg Fenves said in a statement Sunday. “These events make it clear, now more than ever, that Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”

Fenves ordered the immediate removal of the statues on campus of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, former U.S. Sen. John Reagan and former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg.

The news comes in the wake of a deadly outbreak of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia that began in protest of the planned removal of a monument of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and left one dead and 19 injured after a car-ramming attack.