Robert E. Lee statue removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans.

ID: 6268 ~ 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 2017, the City of New Orleans removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from its pedestal at the end of St. Charles. The removal marked the last of four Confederate monuments to be taken down in accordance with the 2015 New Orleans City Council's vote to relocate memorials to white supremacy.

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…