Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues

Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues

On Friday, May 19, 2017, Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered an address about the City of New Orleans’ efforts to remove monuments that prominently celebrate the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”  The statues were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the “Cult of the Lost Cause,” a movement. Here is the New York Times transcript of the speech, for reading.

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