In 2017, the city of New Orleans removed a statue of Robert E. Lee, which stood upon a 60-foot pedestal in what is now Harmony Circle.

ID: 6280 ~ Source: Infrogmation of New Orleans from New Orleans, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Lee_Taken_Down_(34604939042).jpg.

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Streets on the Table Episode 1: Allen Toussaint

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…