robert e. lee
The group was guarded by scores of police and outnumbered by hundreds of counter-protesters who waved signs denouncing racism.
He was already being investigated after photos emerged of him standing next to a Confederate flag.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's address makes it even harder to defend statues honoring the "cult of the Lost Cause."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Activists express joy as New Orleans removes a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. It's one more blow against "the cult of the Lost Cause."
The Confederate general's birthday was given for some business closures in Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi.
A single tweet exposed a questionable ordinance in Mississippi.
At least eight people want Robert E. Lee Elementary renamed as "The Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance."
Also, the KKK "was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order."