New Orleans' Confederate monuments coming down
Jason Berry
Jul. 3, 2017
In this .. city .. between the Mississippi .. and Lake Pontchartrain, the only traffic circle is named for Robert E. Lee. In 1884, a movement of Confederate partisans erected a 60-foot Doric column and installed an arms-folded statue of the late Confederate general ...
Lee Circle was tense Friday afternoon May 19, with police, protesters and cranes in place ... The mayor had .. support from the .. City Council in 2015; ... legal challenges .. took two years before the .. 5th Circuit .. ruled .. officials had authority over city property ...
For weeks .. obscene calls flooded the mayor's receptionist ...
"I want to try to gently peel from your hands the grip on a false narrative of our history that I think weakens us, and make straight a wrong turn we made many years ago — we can more closely connect with integrity to the founding principles of our nation and forge a clearer and straighter path toward a better city and more perfect union" ...
https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/new-orleans-confederate-monuments-are-coming-down-under-mayor-landrieu