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Hear The Citywide Conversation About Confederate Monuments

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Thomas Walsh
Published August 24, 2015 at 11:18 PM EDT

The Monumental Task Committee, a volunteer organization that looks after New Orleans monuments, is hosting a public forum on Tuesday, August 25, 2015. The goal is to discuss the fate of four Confederate-themed statues.

The debate on whether New Orleans should continue hosting depictions of General Robert E. Lee and other Civil War Confederate heroes started in June, after the racially charged shooting of eight black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. That state decided to stop flying the Confederate flag at the state capital. And soon after Mayor Landrieu opened a dialogue on his city’s use of Confederate symbols, namely a series of statues.

Mayor Landrieu's proposal has cause controversy among many citizen in New Orleans.

Hundreds fill city hall to express their opinions about the possibility of four confederate statues being removed from New Orleans.
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Hundreds fill city hall to express their opinions about the possibility of four confederate statues being removed from New Orleans.
A group of historians, including Laura Rosanne Adderly, second from left, explain why the statues were erected and what could be done with them.
Loyola University New Orleans /
A group of historians, including Laura Rosanne Adderly, second from left, explain why the statues were erected and what could be done with them.

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Thomas Walsh
Thomas Walsh is an independent radio producer for WWNO. Each week he works to produce new editions of Louisiana Eats and All Things New Orleans, as well as Notes From New Orleans, The Farmer's Market Minute, and The Green Minute. Outside WWNO, Thomas is a volunteer disc jockey for WTUL, where he hosts a weekly live four-hour program broadcasting twentieth century classical music. Thomas has four years experience in audio engineering, and a BA from Trinity University in San Antonio where he double majored in communications and philosophy. Someday he will give away his entire collection of Grateful Dead concerts, which has swelled to unnecessary proportions in recent years.
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