Besides the (in)famous Lee statue, the other monuments being removed are: a statue of Gen. PGT Beauregard at City Park, a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and an obelisk marking the Battle of Liberty Place. The city will also remove an obelisk dedicated to Battle of Liberty Place, a Reconstruction Era uprising largely led by former Confederate fighters.
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If approved, this would be one of the most sweeping gestures yet by an American city to sever ties with Confederate history.
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Confederate symbols and monuments have always been controversial in the United States, where they are beloved by some residents of the once slave-owning southern states which seceded during the 1861-1865 Civil War, but reviled by those who see them as racist.
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A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee towers over Lee Circle in New Orleans. After months of meetings and discussion, members of the City Council voted the statues do meet that requirement.
During the hearings on the monuments in New Orleans, the Historic District Landmarks Commission, the Human Relations Commission and the Vieux Carré Commission voted in favor to recommend the removal of the monuments.
The ordinance, which is supported by four of the seven council members, was proposed by the city’s mayor, Mitch Landrieu, in July., still the public remains divided. “When I saw “Whites Only” signs when I was younger, I didn’t see any of these people wanting to put up and keep those monuments come to my defense and say ‘Let this boy eat'”.
In addition to Landrieu and the city, Anthony Foxx, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation; the U.S. Department of Transportation; Matthew Welbes, executive director of the Federal Transit Administration; the Federal Transit Administration; the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority are named as defendants.
But that has proven to be insufficient within the wave of new calls to remove Confederate monuments across the country. Both Davis and Beauregard attended the monument’s dedication.
The four monuments were all erected in the late-19 and early-20 century during the Jim Crow era.
“Many of the people I was elected to serve are justifiably offended by these symbols, as am I”, said Councilwoman Susan Guidry.
He said city leaders should consider forming a commission to decide what to do about other monuments.
Landrieu says the monuments also work to divide the city.
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