Confederate Monument Toppled

ID: 6267 ~ Source: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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In New Orleans, a Confederate monument lays on the ground, bearing the acronym "BLM" as a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement. A street sign for Jefferson Davis Parkway is visible in the background. Norman C. Francis Parkway now stands in its place.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table: Introduction

Streets on the Table: Introduction

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…