On Friday, the final Civil War-era landmark in New Orleans, a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, was taken down. This was the fourth, and final, Civil War monument that the city has removed since late April after voting in 2015 to remove the Confederate markers. Many have argued that landmarks, such as the now dislodged statue of Robert E. Lee, glorify historical figures and events that for many rightfully represent slavery and injustice. As the New Orleans Mayor explained in a private address, the historical markers "celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for...to literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places—in honor—is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for out future." 

The four monuments that have been taken down over the past months will be stored and eventually relocated although it is not yet clear to where.