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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 18, 2017, 09:34 PM May 2017

Mayor Landrieu to discuss removal of Confederate statues in 'special address' Friday

Mayor Mitch Landrieu will hold a "special address" Friday (May 19) on the removal of the Confederate statues, according to a newly released public notice.

The event will be held at Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Ave., with doors opening at 2 p.m. and the program scheduled to begin an hour later with a reception to follow.

The announcement comes as the city prepares Thursday evening to remove the Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Circle, the last of four monuments originally slated for removal. The P.G.T. Beauregard monument outside City Park was removed Wednesday morning and the Jefferson Davis statue in Mid-City was taken down last week. The first statue removed, the Battle of Liberty Place obelisk, came down April 24.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_landrieu_to_discuss_remo.html

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