File #60: ""One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana""

"One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana"

A close-up of the monument reveals the strikingly overt language of white supremacy used here, in contrast with other monuments of this sort that typically couch this message behind a veil of Lost Cause terminology that more vaguely describes the monument as one to a just cause or those who died defending freedom, etc. Originally, no inscription was placed on the monument when it was erected in 1891. In 1932, inscriptions were added which attested to the battle's role in establishing white supremacy in the South. This inscription would be continuously rewritten with more appropriate inscriptions based upon the beliefs and philosophy of modern day New Orleans.

Dorothea Lange (2020), Angela Minning (2021)

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs online catalog
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762996/

Photo Taken July, 1936

Luca Azuma

Public Domain

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