Liberty Place Monument
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The Liberty Place Monument is a controversial New Orleans memorial that once commemorated an 1874 white supremacist insurrection against the city’s Reconstruction-era government.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate-related monument
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monument ⓘ public memorial ⓘ |
| associatedEventDate | 1874 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Orleans city politics
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Reconstruction government of Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedGroup | White League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemorates |
1874 white supremacist insurrection in New Orleans
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Battle of Liberty Place NERFINISHED ⓘ insurrection against the Reconstruction-era government of Louisiana ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticizedFor |
glorifying white supremacist violence
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undermining Reconstruction-era democracy ⓘ |
| currentStatus | removed from its original public site ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
news coverage about Confederate monument removals
ⓘ
scholarly discussions of memory and Reconstruction ⓘ |
| governedBy | City of New Orleans ordinances on monuments ⓘ |
| hasBeenTargetOf |
protests
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vandalism ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEra | post–American Civil War period ⓘ |
| hasInscriptionAbout |
overthrow of the Reconstruction government
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participants in the Battle of Liberty Place ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalContext |
Reconstruction era
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post–Civil War racial politics in the United States ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfControversy | racial and historical memory controversy ⓘ |
| ideologicallyAssociatedWith |
Lost Cause of the Confederacy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
white supremacy ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
debates over Confederate monuments
ⓘ
public controversy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Louisiana
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New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
civil rights organizations
ⓘ
many New Orleans residents ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| removalOrderedBy | Mayor Mitch Landrieu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| removedBy | City of New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| removedFromPublicDisplay | 2017 ⓘ |
| supportedBy | some heritage and Confederate memorial groups ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
racial oppression for many observers
ⓘ
white supremacist resistance to Reconstruction ⓘ |
| unveiledIn | 1891 ⓘ |
| wasErectedBy | City of New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasOriginallyLocatedAt | near the foot of Canal Street, New Orleans ⓘ |
| wasRelocatedTo | a less prominent location near a parking lot in New Orleans ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.