SEVEN Down, Ten More to Go!

  1. Robert E. Lee Statue (removed 2017)

  2. P.G.T. Beauregard Statue (removed 2017)

  3. Jefferson Davis Statue (removed 2017)

  4. Liberty Monument/Crescent City White League (removed 2017)

  5. John McDonogh Bust (Removed by The People of New Orleans on June 13, 2020)

  6. John McDonogh Monument (Removed by The People of New Orleans on July 8, 2020)

  7. Charles Didier Dreux (Removed by The People of New Orleans on July 8, 2020)

Remaining monuments to white inferiority

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  1. Confederate General Albert Pike Monument

  2. Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan Monument
    “Poet-Priest” of Confederacy

  3. Jefferson Davis Death Place Marker
    President of the Confederacy

  4. Sophie B. Wright Statue
    President of Stonewall Jackson Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy, upheld segregation in womens and religious movements

  5. Henry Clay Monument
    Slaveowner, President of American Colonization Society, defender of slavery in Congress

  6. George Washington as Master Mason Statue
    Slaveowner

  7. Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur De Bienville Monument
    Colonial governor of Louisiana, brought 1st enslaved Africans to New Orleans, violent colonizer of Indigenous peoples

  8. Andrew Jackson Monument
    Slaveowner, perpetrator of genocide against Indigenous peoples

  9. Edward Douglas White Statue
    Confederate soldier, Member of Crescent City White League; as a Supreme Court justice, ruled in favor of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson

  10. Segregated WWI Memorial Arch
    “Colored” and “White” troops listed on different panels

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  1. Jackson Square
    Slaveowner, perpetrator of genocide against Indigenous peoples

  2. Bienville Place
    Colonial governor of Louisiana, brought 1st enslaved Africans to New Orleans, violent colonizer

  3. Washington Artillery Park
    Honors a battalion that served the Confederate Army

  4. Washington Square
    Slaveowner

  5. Gayarre Place
    Confederate sympathizer, white supremacist author of histories that romanticized slavery

  6. Kruttschnitt Place
    White supremacist lawyer, segregationist, worked to limit rights of Black people to vote, serve on juries, and receive fair trials

  7. DeSoto Park
    Genocidal colonizer

  8. Fortier Park
    Tulane professor, author of histories and publications that romanticized slavery

  9. Gravier Park
    Slaveowner

  10. Palmer Park
    Moderator of Presbyterian church in Confederate States of America, advocated from the pulpit for Louisiana’s secession from the Union

  11. Audubon Park
    Slaveowner

  12. Clay Square
    Slaveowner, president of American Colonization Society, defender of slavery in Congress

  13. Sophie B. Wright Park
    President of Stonewall Jackson Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy, upheld segregation in womens & religious movements

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  1. Lusher Charter Lower School
    Segregationist, Chief Collector of Confederate Tax (LA), Commissioner and Marshal for Confederate Government (Alexandria, VA)

  2. Lusher Charter School, Fortier Campus

  3. Sophie B. Wright Charter School
    President of Stonewall Jackson Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy, upheld segregation in womens and religious movements

  4. McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School
    Slaveowner, prominent member of American Colonization Society

  5. McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School

  6. Benjamin Franklin High School
    Slaveowner

Streets named after white inferiors

slaveowners

  • Poydras Street

  • Washington Avenue

  • St. Claude Avenue

  • Treme Street

  • Gentilly Boulevard

  • Gravier Street

  • Franklin Avenue

  • Jefferson Avenue

  • Almonaster Avenue

  • Allard Boulevard

  • Audubon Street

  • Madison Street

  • Henry Clay Avenue

  • d’Abadie Street

  • Aubry Street

Confederates

(Military, government officials, donors and neo-Confederates)

colonial governors

Heads of slaveholding colonies with immense personal power in the trade of enslaved peoples, laws controlling all aspects of their lives and in military campaigns against indigenous people. Degrees of violence varied, but they deserve to be considered as a category as the heads of colonial empire in Louisiana.

  • Bienville Street

  • North Galvez Street

  • South Galvez Street

  • Old Galvez Street

  • Ulloa Street

  • North Miro Street

  • South Miro Street

  • Carondelet Street

  • North Gayoso Street

  • South Gayoso Street

  • Salcedo Street

  • O’Reilly Street

  • Casa Calvo Street

  • North Jefferson Davis Parkway

  • South Jefferson Davis Parkway

  • Jefferson Davis Trail

  • Palmer Avenue

  • Calhoun Street

  • General Taylor

  • General Ogden

  • Governor Nicholls Street

  • Governor Nicholls Street

  • Wharf

  • Forshey Street

  • General Early Drive

  • Robert E. Lee Boulevard

  • West Robert E. Lee Boulevard

  • Lee Street

  • Lee Circle

  • Beauregard Avenue

  • Beauregard Drive

  • Mouton Street

  • Bragg Street

  • Lane Street

  • Polk Street

  • Slidell Street

  • Semmes Avenue

  • Dreux Avenue

  • Walker Street

  • General Meyer Avenue

  • Capdeville Street

  • Tulane Avenue

  • Sophie Wright Place

VIOLENCE/GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

OTHER

  • South Claiborne Avenue

  • North Claiborne Avenue

  • Claiborne Drive
    Governor William C.C. Claiborne was responsible for the brutal crushing of the 1811 Uprising of Enslaved People.

  • Webster Street
    Daniel Webster was a defender of slavery in Congress & honored with a street, along with Henry Clay and John Calhoun in 1852.

  • Napoleon Avenue
    Napoleon Bonaparte reversed the abolition of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies and imprisoned Toussaint L’Ouverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution.

  • Saint Charles Avenue
    Named for Charles III of Spain, who was no saint. His colonial empire continued slavery and colonial violence  in Spanish Louisiana.

  • Ponce de Leon Street

  • Desoto Street

  • Columbus Street

  • Jackson Avenue

  • North Cortez Street

  • South Cortez Street

  • Iberville Street

Romanticizing slavery in history & published works

  • Alcée Fortier Boulevard