THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WHITESUPREMACIST SYMBOLS IN NEW ORLEANS.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES:

PUBLIC BUILDINGS • John McDonogh Elementary School (Gret-

na), McDonogh #15 (French Quarter), Mc-Donogh #28 (Esplanade Ave), McDonogh #35 High School.

• Robert M. Lusher School (Nashville Ave, Willow St, Carrollton Ave) named after rabid Confederate and outspoken racist, state superintendent of Louisiana public schools post Civil War.

• Henry W. Allen School (Nashville Ave), former Governor of Louisiana, Confederate General.

PRIVATE BUILDINGS • Judah Touro Hospital—Jewish slaveholder.

1st Touro hospital opened where today’s Morial Convention Center sits. Slaveholders paid min $1/day to house slaves at hospital for “repair” or medical care. This fee was considered high by slaveholders.

• Tulane University, Tulane Hospital, Tulane Ave—named after Paul Tulane, the largest Louisiana financier of the Confederacy.

PUBLIC STREETS • Claiborne Avenue—longest street in the

city, named after territorial Gov. William C.C.Claiborne, 1st elected Governor of Louisiana. Brutal slave owner. Passes on wealth to de-scendants including great great great niece, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, former Democrat & U.S. Congresswoman from Louisiana

• Poydras Avenue— named after Julien Poy-dras, former President of Louisiana State Senate. Slaveowner who recklessly killed Blacks from poisonous fumes from archaic production of indigo; slave rebellion struck one his plantations, Alma, in 1795; rebels were brutally executed.

• Galvez Street—after Bernardo de Galvez. A brutal Spanish territorial Governor of Louisiana.

• General DeGaulle (Algiers) Named after President & General Charles de DeGaulle of France, ally in World War II against fascism but oppressor of Africans—Algeria Rev-olution and other states in North, West & Central Africa & Indochina (Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia)

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Information courtesy ofLeon A. WatersManager, Hidden History Tours

PUBLIC STREETS CONT’D• Ulloa Street (Mid-City) Named for oppres-

sive Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa of Louisiana.

• Many more, including: Gov Nicholls, Robert E. Lee, Walker St, Mouton St, Lane St, Bragg St, Polk St, Forshey St, Carrollton Ave, Calhoun St, Palmer Ave, Gen Taylor Ave, Gen Meyer Ave, Slidell St, Capdeville St, Gen Early Dr, Beauregard Dr & Lee St.

PUBLIC ART(MONUMENTS, MARKERS, ETC.)

• Robert E. Lee monument (Lee Circle)

• White League monument (Iberville St across from Westin Hotel)

• Justice Edward Douglass White (400 Block of Royal Street, Louisiana Supreme Court) Member of the terrorist White League that slaughtered over 3000 Blacks during the counterrevolutionary period known as Reconstruction. Voted with majority on U.S. Supreme Court against Homer A. Plessy that led to the landmark decision of “separate but equal.”

• Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike monument (Tulane Avenue & Jefferson Davis Parkway)

• World War I Arch (behind Frederick Doug-lass School @ 3800 Dauphine St) Respects white supremacy supported by President Woodrow Wilson, segregates names of Black & white soldiers.

• Jefferson Davis monument (Canal St & Jefferson Davis Parkway) (President of the Confederacy)

• Andrew Jackson monument (Jackson Square, French Quarter) Architect of the “Trail of Tears,” murdered thousands of native people, brutal owner of 300 African slaves.

• Bienville monument (Conti St, Decatur St & N. Peters St.) Founder and first territorial Governor to introduce the African slave trade to New Orleans.

• P.G.T. Beauregard equestrian statue (New Orleans Museum of Art entrance, City Park) Commander of Confederate defenses at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, S. Carolina at beginning of the Civil War; born in St. Bernard parish.

• John McDonogh statue (Duncan Plaza in front of City Hall & Lafayette Square on St. Charles Ave) One of the largest and cruelest slaveholders in Louisiana. Names of John McDonogh appear on schools as well as buildings in Baltimore, which is his city of birth.

• Henry Clay monument (Lafayette Square) Slave-owning Senator from Kentucky, ad-mired by slaveholders in Louisiana,

• Many more, including Col. Charles Didier Dreux statue & Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan monument

PUBLIC PARKS • Richard Taylor Park (Washington Ave &

N. Derbigny St) Slaveholding Confederate General from Kentucky, buried at Metairie Cemetery.

• Benjamin M. Palmer Park (S. Claiborne Ave & S.Carrollton Ave) Pastor from Charleston, S. Carolina, minister of First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans for 46 years, active Confederate sympathizer.

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