Who Are The Confederate Men Memorialized With Statues?
Confederate statues and monuments are coming down all over the country.
Robert E. Lee
With Lee Statue's Removal, Another Battle Of New Orleans Comes To A Close
Protests and court battles trailed the nearly two-year effort to get rid of the monuments. For the past month they've been acrimonious gathering places for those in favor and opposed to removal.
New Orleans Takes Down Statue Of Gen. Robert E. Lee
The statue in Lee Circle was the last of four Confederate-era monuments that the city had pledged to remove amid a swirl of controversy.
Arkansas To Split Its Holidays For Martin Luther King Jr. And Robert E. Lee
Since 1985, the state has celebrated the civil rights icon and Confederate general on the same day. A bill set to be signed into law removes Lee from King's federal holiday, bumping him to October.
New Orleans Can Remove Confederate Statues, Federal Appeals Court Says
"There may have been a time when that monument reflected who we were as a city, but times change. And so do we," Mayor Mitch Landrieu said when he announced the plan.