First of four monuments honoring Confederate history removed in New Orleans. The city is removing the statues despite security threats
The city removed a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis last week; a statue of Confederate Gen PGT Beauregard on Wednesday; and a monument memorializing a deadly 1874 white
Three Confederate statues were removed from public spaces in New Orleans nearly two years ago, but officials are still trying to decide what to do with them. The statues of Confederate New Orleans on Monday began removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and its aftermath, capping a prolonged battle about the future of the memorials, which critics deemed
CNN —. After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
One of the statues removed was of Gen. P.G.T Beauregard, who ordered the first shots fired in the Civil War, another was a bronze figure of Confederate hero Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood for
A construction crew works to remove a monument of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, May 11, 2017. The four monuments were erected between 1884 and 1915 to "celebrate the 'Cult of the Lost Cause

New Orleans has begun removing statues that the city's mayor said were erected to honor the "lost cause of the Confederacy." The first to go early Monday morning was the Battle of Liberty

Pedestrians pass the former site of the John McDonogh monument in Lafayette Square in New Orleans on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. A year and a half after protesters removed the statue of McDonogh from
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