Battle of Liberty Place Monument

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The "Battle of Liberty Place" monument memorialized the attempted coup by the White League in New Orleans that hastened the end of Reconstruction. According to the monument's inscription, the insurrection ultimately triumphed when the Federal government "recognized white supremacy" because of the sacrifices of the White League. This installment in our series on the White League looks at the erection of the monument during the Jim Crow period of Confederate memorialization and how the white people of New Orleans commemorated the battle as a heroic victory for the white race until long after the advent of the modern Civil Rights Movement. https://thereconstructionera.com/the-white-league-monument-at-liberty-place-in-new-orleans/
 

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The White League was a paramilitary group that was allied with the Democratic Party in the South. In 1874 and 1875, the White League was responsible for widespread violence against black and white Republicans in Louisiana and Mississippi. The group’s platform from 1874 stated the following:
Disregarding all minor questions of principle or policy, and having solely in view the maintenance of our hereditary civilization and Christianity menaced by a stupid Africanization, we appeal to men of our race, of whatever language or nationality, to unite with us against that supreme danger. A league of whites is the inevitable result of that formidable, oath-bound, and blindly obedient league of the blacks, which, under the command of the most cunning and unscrupulous negroes in the State, may at any moment plunge us into a war of races . . . It is with some hope that a timely and proclaimed union of the whites as a race, and their efficient preparation for any emergency, may arrest the threatened horrors of social war, and teach the blacks to beware of further insolence and aggression, that we call upon the men of our race to leave in abeyance all lesser considerations; to forget all differences of opinions and all race prejudices of the past, and with no object in view but the common good of both races, to unite with us in an earnest effort to re-establish a white man’s government in the city and the State.
 

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Yes. It was removed three years ago. The workmen had to wear bulletproof vest because of death threats from heritage defenders.

Yes, and IIRC the original contractor for the removal had his car blown up in his drive way. A Corvette if memory serves, he then backed out of the job.
 
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