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Jefferson Davis Monument

By Amber Nicholson, Karolyn Eilertsen (media curation) & Olivia Simkins (media curation)
Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 6, 1889. Residents hung black bunting from buildings along St. Charles Avenue, and the city itself entered a period of…
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