re: Take down all the statues and monuments

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New Orleans lost 3 statues in the last month, yet it still has 10,000x more history

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e 'Em Down NOLA list of targets for removal or renaming:

Street names

Palmer Avenue

Calhoun Street

General Taylor Street

Claiborne Avenue

Galvez Street

Jefferson Davis Parkway (Mayor Mitch Landrieu has also called for Jefferson Davis Parkway to be renamed after recently retired Xavier University president Norman Francis).

General Ogden Street

Ulloa Street

Tulane Avenue

Governor Nicholls Street

Poydras Street

Forshey Street

General Early Street

Robert E. Lee Boulevard

Beauregard Avenue

Walker Street

Mouton Street

Bragg Street

Lane Street

Polk Avenue

Slidell Street

Lee Street

Beauregard Drive

General DeGaulle Drive

School names:

Tulane University

Henry W. Allen Elementary

McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School

KIPP McDonogh 15 School for the Creative Arts

ReNEW McDonogh City Park Academy

Lusher Charter School

Lusher Charter Elementary School

Hospital names:

Touro Infirmary

Tulane Medical Center

Monuments :

P.G.T. Bureaugard, at the City Park entrance near Esplanade Avenue.

Jefferson Davis at Canal Street and Jefferson Davis Parkway.

Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan at Jefferson Davis Parkway and Banks Street.

Confederate Brig. Gen. Albert Pike monument at Tulane Avenue and Jefferson Davis Parkway.

Henry Clay at Lafayette Square.

World War 1 Memorial arch at 3800 Burgundy Street (Take 'Em Down NOLA cites the segregation of names of black soldiers from the names of white soldiers as a reason for wanting this monument's removal).

Andrew Jackson monument in Jackson Square.

Justice Edward Douglass White in the 400 block of Royal Street.

Bienville monument at Conti and Decatur and North Peters streets.

Battle of Liberty Place monument near the foot of Iberville Street.

John McDonogh statue at Lafayette Square.

Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle.

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