New Orleans to begin public meetings on Confederate monuments next week
BY JAQUETTA WHITE
Aug. 04, 2015
City officials will begin holding public meetings next week to discuss the future of four monuments in New Orleans that have come under new scrutiny as officials across the South reconsider the wisdom of leaving Confederate symbols in public places.
The Historic District Landmarks Commission and the Human Relations Committee will kick things off with separate meetings on Aug. 13 as part of a 60-day period of discussion before the New Orleans City Council considers an ordinance that would label the monuments as “nuisances” and authorize their relocation.
The four monuments are the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee atop a column in Lee Circle; a monument to the so-called Battle of Liberty Place and the Crescent City White League, a white supremacist group during the Reconstruction era, near the foot of Canal Street; a statue honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the short-lived Confederate States of America, on the parkway also named for him; and a statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in a traffic circle at the entrance to City Park ...
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