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Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place
4-24-2017
Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early Monday morning, as crews and police gathered around the Battle of Liberty Place monument downtown around 2 a.m. to begin dismantling the first of four statues eyed for removal by the city.
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Two flatbed trucks arrived just before 2:15 a.m., carrying equipment to haul away the monument. The name of the company on the trucks' sides was concealed by tape and cardboard. The workers wore black vests, yellow helmets and pieces of cloth to cover their faces, apparently to guard against identification.
Then, just before 3 a.m., a couple of workers set inside a crane like a crow's nest and shielded by a brown canvas began drilling into a section at the top of the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk. Minutes later, that section was pried loose and hauled onto one of the flatbeds, while the crew worked to dismantle the rest of the monument.
The monuments have been slated by the city for removal since December 2015, when the New Orleans City Council to bring down the four statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk.
Georgia Officials are preparing to sand blast the carvings of removal of the 90- by 190-foot carving of three Confederate leaders, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson from the side of Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Park is a state park about 30 minutes outside Atlanta, Georgia and the sculpture in question is part of what's described as the "largest high relief sculpture in the world." The sculpture was dedicated by Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1970 and finished in 1972.
Removal of the first of four New Orleans Confederate monuments begins with Liberty Place
4-24-2017
Efforts to remove four Confederate monuments commenced early Monday morning, as crews and police gathered around the Battle of Liberty Place monument downtown around 2 a.m. to begin dismantling the first of four statues eyed for removal by the city.
[url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/04/monuments_removed_new_orleans.html]
Two flatbed trucks arrived just before 2:15 a.m., carrying equipment to haul away the monument. The name of the company on the trucks' sides was concealed by tape and cardboard. The workers wore black vests, yellow helmets and pieces of cloth to cover their faces, apparently to guard against identification.
Then, just before 3 a.m., a couple of workers set inside a crane like a crow's nest and shielded by a brown canvas began drilling into a section at the top of the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk. Minutes later, that section was pried loose and hauled onto one of the flatbeds, while the crew worked to dismantle the rest of the monument.
The monuments have been slated by the city for removal since December 2015, when the New Orleans City Council to bring down the four statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk.
Georgia Officials are preparing to sand blast the carvings of removal of the 90- by 190-foot carving of three Confederate leaders, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson from the side of Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Park is a state park about 30 minutes outside Atlanta, Georgia and the sculpture in question is part of what's described as the "largest high relief sculpture in the world." The sculpture was dedicated by Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1970 and finished in 1972.