The Dismantling of New Orleans's Confederate Monuments
More than 150 years after the Civil War and more than 100 years since its construction, the city of New Orleans removed early Thursday morning its monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The dismantling of the statue honoring in December 2015 to remove four monuments commemorating the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy,” a movement which arose during the rise of Jim Crow segregation and one that the city is “recognized across the South as celebrating and promoting white supremacy.” The other monuments include statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, as well as a monument to the postwar Battle of Liberty Place, during which the all-white Crescent City White League staged an insurgency against the mixed-race Municipal Police in an attempt to topple city’s government. The Battle of Liberty Place monument was the the last month.
