What Those Monuments Are About

Video by Carlos Waters, Vox. Mona Lalwani, story editor.

More:

“Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy,” Southern Poverty Law Center

“Confederate Monuments Are Propaganda — Not History,” Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

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Removing Confederate Monuments

“I didn’t start the problems with race in this country, but I did force the people of New Orleans to confront them,” reflects Mayor Mitch Landrieu. 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival.

The monuments:

• Battle of Liberty Place Monument – erected 1891 to commemorate the Reconstruction era “Battle of Liberty Place“. Removed April 24, 2017.
• General Beauregard Equestrian Statue – erected in 1913. Removed May 17, 2017.
• Jefferson Davis Monument – erected in 1911. Removed May 11, 2017.
• Robert E. Lee monument and circle – erected in 1884. 60 ft. column with 12 ft. statue on an earthen mound. Removed May 19, 2017

More:

‘The Confederacy lost and we’re better for it’: New Orleans mayor,” USA Today

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