New Orleans To Remove Four Major Confederate Monuments
By Elahe Izadi for The Washington Post - New Orleans officials voted Thursday to remove four prominent monuments to the Confederacy, following months of impassioned debate and similar actions by other communities in the South. The city council voted 6-1 to remove an obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place, as well as statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who introduced the proposal a week after a white gunman killed nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., called the move a “courageous decision to turn a page on our divisive past.”
