New Orleans confronts its Confederate history
by JOSH SANBURN
May 13, 2017
1 minute
EARLY ON APRIL 24, POLICE OFFICERS CORDONED OFF NEW ORLEANS’ LIBERTY Monument, a granite obelisk commemorating an 1874 uprising of white citizens against the state’s Reconstructionist government. With snipers posted nearby, crews of workers—their
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