A monument to a deadly white-supremacist uprising in 1874 was removed
under cover of darkness by workers in masks and bulletproof vests Monday as New
Orleans joined the movement to take down symbols of the Confederacy and the Jim
Crow South. In the coming days, the city also will remove statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. • Article
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