The Southern Poverty Law Center’s 2019 “Whose Heritage: Public Symbols of the Confederacy” Report includes a chart tallying how the number of Confederate monuments coincides with years when Jim Crow was heightened.

ID: 6316 ~ Source: The Southern Poverty Law Center, “Whose Heritage: Public Symbols of the Confederacy” Report, 01 February 2019, https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/styles/splc_large_rectangle/public/com_whose-heritage_timeline_breaker2019.jpg?itok=2k6qaTAK&timestamp=1549050831.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

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…