Today was another significant milestone in the trend to change honoring racist history when it comes to the Confederacy. The city of New Orleans will remove four Confederate statues. Councilwoman Susan Guidry said the statues would be stored until a place could be found to display them in proper context.
And Lee Circle may soon be called something else. The ordinance the
council approved called it by its original name: Tivoli Circle.
The four statues were erected between 1884 and 1915, after
Reconstruction and during the era of Jim Crow. While three depict
figures deeply influential within the Confederacy, the fourth, the
Battle of Liberty Place, honors an 1874 insurrection of mostly
Confederate veterans who battled against the city's police and state
militia.
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