Four Confederate-era monuments in New Orleans will be relocated after the City Council voted to declare them a nuisance Thursday.
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The plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to issues a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and permanent injunction against Landrieu and the city, “barring them from removing, disassembling, placing into storage or tampering in any way with” the Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and Liberty Place monuments.
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New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who has backed the removal of the monuments, said, “The time surely comes when justice must and will be heard”.
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The vote is one of the strongest gestures yet by an American city to remove symbols of Confederate history.
He said the monument to Robert E. Lee is a monument to a criminal.
“They honor, praise, or foster ideologies which are in conflict with the requirements of equal protection for citizens as provided by the constitution and laws of the United States, the state, or the laws of the city and suggests the supremacy of one ethnic, religious, or racial group over another”. He says keeping them would limit the city’s progress.
A participant holds a sign during a December 10 rally as confederate heritage supporters bear confederate flags nearby in front of City Hall in New Orleans.
The defenders of the monuments have emerged to dash all our hopes of a new and transformed New Orleans. Civil War monuments honoring the service and sacrifice of the Confederacy are reportedly located along some of the busiest NOLA streets.
The four monuments were all erected in the late-19 and early-20 century during the Jim Crow era.
The New York Times noted that Mayor Dutch Morial tried unsuccessfully to remove the Liberty Place monument in 1981. They also claim the New Orleans City Council ignored the City’s own protocol for receipt of donations. The city previously has said an anonymous donor has offered to pay for the work. This monument was briefly stored away from public view, but was restored as an open city marker thanks to a campaign led by Klan leader David Duke.
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.
“If we are mad about taking down monuments to rapists and murderers, that’s up to you”, said Councilman James Gray. Opponents of removing the monuments included Gov. Bobby Jindal.
“Symbols matter and should reflect who we are as a people”, Landrieu said in a statement.
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The vote came after hours of emotional pleas from both pro- and anti-monument groups and an impassioned address by Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the monuments represent the “wrong side of history” and should be relocated to a Civil War museum after removal from public places.
