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The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is a stone obelisk on an inscribed plinth, formerly on display in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, commemorating the "Battle of Liberty Place", an 1874 attempt by Democratic White League paramilitary organizations to take control of the government of Louisiana from its Reconstruction Era Republican leadership after a disputed gubernatorial election.
The monument in its original location on Canal Street, 1906 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.
As part of a sixty-day period for public comment, two city commissions accepted the Mayor's call for the removal of four monuments associated with the Confederacy, including statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Beauregard, and an obelisk commemorating the Battle of Liberty Place. Governor Bobby Jindal opposed the removals. [3]
Also slated to be relocated are statues of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard.
A Battle of Liberty Place Monument was erected in New Orleans in 1891. The monument initially celebrated the Battle of Liberty Place, [11] also known as the Battle of Canal Street, which was a failed coup d'état and riot led by White League paramilitary terrorists in September 1874. In December 2016, the city council voted to remove the ...
Battle of Liberty Place Monument; Lincoln Tomb; Little Rock Confederate Memorial; M. Martyrs Monument in Midway; McKinley Monument; Medal of Honor Memorial (Olympia ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of public art in New Orleans, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures ...
Liberty Monument (Nicosia), monument to Cyprus independence fighters, erected 1973; Liberty Monument (Seychelles), monument to independence, erected 2014; Liberty Statue (Budapest), erected 1947; Battle of Liberty Place Monument, New Orleans monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, erected 1891 and dismantled 2017