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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
over 5 years ago
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In the 1890s, the name of Congo Square — a meeting point in New Orleans where enslaved black people were granted the freedom to congregate, sing and drum — was changed to Beauregard Square as part of a large-scale campaign to enforce racial hierarchy, by valorizing those who fought for slavery. Local New Orleans author and historian Freddi Williams Evans successfully advocated to change the name of the area back to Congo Square in 2011.