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The new signs went up in recent weeks, but the formal dedication happened Thursday morning. Author: Danny Monteverde / Eyewitness News Published: 5:03 PM CST January 28, 2021 Updated: 5:14 PM CST January 28, 2021 It was a moment to take it all in. Norman Francis sat under a street sign Thursday morning that bears his name. The new signs went up in recent weeks, but the formal dedication happened Thursday morning. The street was originally named Hagan Avenue. That changed in 1910 when it was renamed for Jefferson Davis, the lone president of the ...

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The bronze statue of Edward Douglass White Jr. disappeared Wednesday from its pedestal on the steps of the state Supreme Court building in New Orleans

A statue of Edward Douglass White, Jr., a former United States Supreme Court Justice and former infantryman in the Confederate Army, is seen outside the Louisiana Supreme Court on Royal Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, La. Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. While a justice White voted for the majority decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 upholding the legality of state segregation to provide "separate but equal" public facilities in the United States and several other landmark segregation cases. A similar statue, curiously enough, was placed in the Capitol by Louisiana in 1955, months after...

The signs that for decades marked Jefferson Davis Parkway at Canal Street in New Orleans are gone. In the coming days, the ones that remain along the thoroughfare named for the lone president of the Confederacy will be replaced with new ones bearing the name of Norman Francis, a civil rights pioneer and longtime president of Xavier University. That's just the start of a process for City Hall, neighbors and businesses as the change takes place Jan. 1. People who live and work along Jeff Davis must update addresses with places such as the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, the Internal Revenue...