14 set 1874 ano - Battle of Liberty Place

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AKA: Battle of Canal Street

An attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana state government, in New Orleans, which was the capital of Louisiana at the time. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before the arrival of Federal troops that restored the elected government. No insurgents were charged in the action.

In 1891, the city erected the Battle of Liberty Place Monument to commemorate and praise the insurrection from the Democratic Party point of view, which at the time was in firm political control of the city and state and was in the process of disenfranchising most blacks. The white marble obelisk was placed at a prominent location on Canal Street. In 1932, the city added an inscription that expressed a white supremacist view. In December 2015 the New Orleans City Council voted to remove the monument, along with three others deemed a "nuisance" (statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate States President Jefferson Davis). The monument was removed on April 24, 2017 by workers with a police escort, due to threats made by supporters of the monument.

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