Statues Removed In New Orleans

(Reuters) - New Orleans on Monday removed a statue that the mayor said glorified a 19th-century attack on police by white supremacists, the first of four monuments that the city will New Orleans has begun removing statues that the city's mayor said were erected to honor the "lost cause of the Confederacy." The first to go early Monday morning was the Battle of Liberty
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New Orleans is removing four statues built between 1884-1915 First erected in 1891, it commemorated the Crescent City White League's attempt to overthrow the post-Civil War government. New Orleans' Lee Circle, which has a prominent statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. WWL-TV Landrieu drew blistering criticism from monument supporters and even some political allies. First of four monuments honoring Confederate history removed in New Orleans. The city is removing the statues despite security threats
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The city removed a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis last week; a statue of Confederate Gen PGT Beauregard on Wednesday; and a monument memorializing a deadly 1874 white
Of the four monuments, Lee's was easily the most prominent: The bronze statue alone is close to 20 feet (6 meters) tall. It's a bronze sculpture of Lee looking toward the northern horizon from atop a roughly 60-foot-tall (18 meter) column. It's not massive like the Superdome or alluring like Bourbon Street, but Lee in his uniform was a For Frank B. Stewart Jr., a white New Orleans native, the city government's plan to remove the statues — an idea championed by New Orleans's white mayor, Mitch Landrieu — feels like an Removal of Robert E. Lee monument on May 19, 2017. About two weeks later, the statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Parkway and Canal Street was taken down in the pre-sunset hours of May 11th.
CNN —. After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The statue of Robert E. Lee is separated from its column Friday, May 19, 2017. It was the final of four post-Civil War monuments in New Orleans that Mayor Mitch Landrieu removed. (Photo by
On May 19, 2017, the Monumental Task Committee, an organization that maintains monuments and plaques across the city, commented on the removal of the statues: "Mayor Landrieu and the City Council have stripped New Orleans of nationally recognized historic landmarks. With the removal of four of our century-plus aged landmarks, at 299 years old
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