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CCNY Architecture Travel Fellows; This monument was originally erected in 1891, as a "memorial to white supremacy," to honor those whites who died in 1874, during the attack of the Crescent City White Leage (all whites) on the New Orleans Metropolitan Police (blacks and whites). As a result of the battle, the city sank into segregation. The memorial was put in storage in 1989 because of civil construction, but the White League threatened to sue New Orleans if the monument was not returned. It was returned, but put on a more historically accurate site, the site of the actual battle, which also happens to currently be in an obscure place on the south end of Canal Street. Interestingly, the orginal, racist inscription has also been covered up with a new inscription that honors both sides of the conflict. The monument is still highy controversial in New Orelans, and graffiti on its new inscription reads "Take Em Down," which in and of itself is quite obscure.
April 2016
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