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Robert E. Lee Monument (New Orleans, Louisiana)

The Robert E. Lee Monument in New Orleans, Louisiana is a historic monument dedicated to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.〔. Listing includes 3 photographs, map, and details of site's historic significance as exemplar of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, as conveyed in (NRHP nomination )〕〔 The monument was included by New Orleans Magazine in June 2011 as one of the city's "11 important statues".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/June-2011/The-New-Orleans-Art-Trail/ )〕 Controversy regarding the monument arose in 2015 when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu requested the removal of the monument and three other Confederate or reconstruction era monuments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for removal of Lee Circle statue )〕
==History==
The monument was dedicated in 1884 at the newly renamed Lee Circle on St. Charles Avenue. Dignitaries present at the dedication on February 22 -- George Washington's birthday -- included former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, two daughters of General Lee, and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. Efforts to build the statue began after Lee's death in 1870 by the Robert E. Lee Monumental Association, which by 1876 had raised the $36,400 needed. New York sculptor Alexander Doyle was hired to sculpt the statue.
The Lee statue "faces north where, as local lore has it, he can always look in the direction of his military adversaries."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.neworleansonline.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1253 )〕
A racial confrontation occurred at the monument on January 19, 1972, the birthday of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Addison Roswell Thompson, a perennial segregationist candidate for governor of Louisiana and mayor of New Orleans, and his friend and mentor, Rene LaCoste (not to be confused with the French tennis player René Lacoste), clashed with a group of Black Panthers. Then eighty-nine years of age and a former opera performer in New York City, LaCoste was described as "dapper in seersucker slacks and navy sports jacket" and with a "white mustache and goatee" resembling Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken. LaCoste and Thompson dressed in Klan robes for the occasion and placed a Confederate flag at the monument. The Black Panthers began throwing bricks at the pair, but police arrived in time to prevent serious injury. At the time of the Thompson/LaCoste confrontation, David Duke, then an active Klansman who served from 1989 to 1992 in the Louisiana House of Representatives, had been among those jailed in New Orleans for "inciting to riot".

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