Caddo Commissioners debate removal of confederate monument (LA)
Lex Talamo
6:16 p.m. CDT June 9, 2016
... On Thursday, Caddo Parish commissioners decided at a long range planning and special projects meeting to further explore options for the monument by creating a subcommittee of citizens — to include historians, homeowners and community leaders ...
The efforts of civil rights advocates led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the courthouse in 2011 but left the confederate monument, the removal of which has been under heated debate since last summer.
"The Last Confederate Flag" depicts four generals of the Confederacy and a single Confederate soldier. Members from the National Action Network and Shreveport's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People see the statue as a symbol of racism, while those who want to keep the monument have declared it a "symbol of the ultimate sacrifice by American veterans of war" ...
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2016/06/09/caddo-commission-debates-removal-confederate-monument/85666352/
