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.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:56PM
You're both a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Besides, a better question to ask if using Nazi Germany as an analogy, how much actual Nazi paraphernalia is still up and in nice little garden like display alcoves on public streets? None. The camps and such are not in the public view and thus one must make the conscious decision to visit them. We still have battle grounds that are monuments and here too.