A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour
[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]
The other monument
[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.
Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.
coverage:
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:09PM
Historical revisionists are fucking with our history, and you dare call the dissenters terrorists?
No, we're calling the people making death threats, and committing arson over it, terrorists:
Death threats prompt workers to wear bulletproof vests while removing Confederate monument in New Orleans [vice.com]
According to a lawyer for the latter contractor, the staff received death threats after submitting the proposal, and according to city officials, the car of one staff member was allegedly set on fire.