Date Zip Code Name of the Individual: Explanation of Recommendation: Recommended Existing Street(s), Links to Reference Materials: Park(s), or Public Place(s) to replace/Rename (if applicable): 2/21/2021 70130 Leave all current names in place! Leave all current names in place. Leave all current names in place. Common sense - don't trash others cultural heritage and history. Accept everyone. 2/19/2021 70118 JAMES DREHAM first recorded instance in the United States Burke Rd. N.O.LA 70127? Please Google his name. of a black person trained in medicine being allowed to work with patients of any racial background. In 1789 helped save the lives of numerous patients during an epidemic of yellow fever that swept the city of New Orleans 2/19/2021 70124 Rename Duncan Plaza to honor Dorothy Mae Members of the Street Renaming Harmony Plaza https://www.nola. Taylor and other Civil Rights leaders Commission have expressed a desire to com/opinions/article_fb8095d5-2a56- honor former council woman Dorothy Mae 587c-9fcb-00bf0a48a654.html Taylor and other civil rights leaders. I support that.
The correct place to honor government officials is renaming Duncan Plaza. A monument to former Mayor Morrison already exists. 2/17/2021 70124 Francesco de Pinedo In March 1927, Francesco de Pinedo Washington Artillery Park https://www.youtube.com/watch? landed a plane on the Mississippi River v=g43BzS3t1fg&list=PLOdnlqTYbMMpwm near the Washington Artillery Park after ojPz6wWIEIAhMIsAFLI&index=1 having left Rome. This was 2 months before Lindbergh flew to Paris. This was the heart of New Orleans' Little Palermo. where 60,000 Italians arrived. 2/17/2021 70124 Tivoli Place at Tivoli Circle From 1810-1877 and from 2015-Present 231 North Roadway Ave. https://www.youtube.com/watch? the name of the land inside Tivoli Circle ( v=RCD7MLXtZ4Y&list=PLoaDtfLNkuNVZ the street) is legally Tivoli Place. WjFw12ioyn3GSfRS8qt_&index=2 In 2015, the City Council rescinded the 1877 dedication as Lee Place and it was reinstated as Tivoli Circle. The CCSRC is to remedy mistreatment of Italians not add to the histo 2/10/2021 District C Clarence A Perkins WWII Veteran, entrepreneur business Streets or public place in Algiers Always care for the community founder of owner of Perkins liquor Store and owner Westside quarterback Club that supported and Barber of Perkins Barber Shop efforts of help LB Landry HS students and Passed away at 99 years old January families. The club would sponsor activities 27,2021 such as Thanksgiving basket giveaway, holiday dances , including ticket raffles all in support of the school. As a business man he hired school age students in store and sandwich shops and taught them how to save there money and open bank accounts. Gave free haircuts to children as a barber when they could not pay. Mr. Perkins often gave free food items to families from his store and never asked for anything in return. See his resent obituary for more information and I will forward a copy of his funeral program for your reference. Sending info to dist. C office. 2/6/2021 D Leah Chase Wonderful lady worthy of having a street No sugestions. I have none. named for her 2/6/2021 70124 Alain Toussaint Internationaly famous local musician and Robert E. Lee I have none. composer 2/5/2021 70115 Eddie L. Sapir Eddie Sapir’s more than 40-year (1966- In accordance with the laws and A submittal package with cover letter, 2006) legacy of legislative and judicial processes of the New Orleans City legislative and judicial public service public service broke racial barriers, Council and the City Council Street highlights, a long-format biography and transformed the economy and protected Renaming Commission, the founding supporting research documents has been neighborhoods. Sapir, a life-long New members of the volunteer Eddie L. sent via email to all Commissioners. Orleanian, lives on Laurel Street in the City Sapir Recognition Committee Council District A uptown neighborhood. respectfully submit Eddie L. Sapir for the honorable dedication of a street, park, or public place. 1/27/2021 70124 District A Pete Fountain Pete Fountain was known world wide for Robert E. Lee Blvd. Wikipedia playing the jazz clarinet. He was a great Google Ambassador for the City of New Orleans and resided in the District where this street is located. 1/21/2021 70119 Rename Lee Circle for Fats Domino. Fats Domino is a world renowned musician. Lee Circle to Fats Domino None. His music is still played abroad to this day. There are lots of opportunities to beautiful the statute in his honor, like adding piano notes to the pedestal. 1/7/2021 70116 Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet who left New Orleans in the 1000 Bourbon Street PO258 no 20's to live in Paris, who welcomed with open arms black American musicians. He helped put New Orleans on the international music scene for over 60 years and was recognized along with Louis Armstrong as our "favourite sons" 12/30/2020 A Cosimo Matassa Nicholas was a Confederate who was not Governor Nicholas Street https://www.offbeat.com/articles/obituary- from New Orleans. Matassa had a cosimo-matassa/ recording studio on the street that changed the face of modern music. 12/15/2020 A No individual..honor our Jazz heritage,our cuisine, We must be a end to name streets and All ex Confederate names None just common sense our French Quarter,The fleur-de-lis should be onto honoring people because no person is the pedestal on the former Lee circle and name it perfect and everyone would not be 100% fleur-de-lis circle. behind a chosen person.All individuals have done great things but all people have something dark in their past and eventually that dark past comes out and we are back renaming a street. 12/15/2020 70118 Dr Jennifer Avegno Leader in the fight against COVID in New No suggestion Fox 8 News with Mayor Cantrell Orleans 12/12/2020 70124 NO PEOPLE the tradition of honoring people is fraught replace any offensive place names with https://www.fantasynamegenerators. with pitfalls. non human names, please. com/park-names.php Let's honor: Society changes. Peace Darwin committed incest with his cousin This site generates place names. Love (married her). Slavery was legal for Brotherhood centuries in many many countries in the Fidelity world, not just the US, until the 1800's and Wisdom even 1900's. Joy Carnivores may be reprehensible in 50 and Nature: meadow, lake, river, bayou, heron, years. owl, robin, etc 12/2/2020 A New Orleans Attorney Jason Cantrell Drops I'm positive all unicorns and rainbows of the Superdome https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jason- Marijuana Joint In Court, Gets Arrested galaxy will roam around freely bringing cantrell-new-orleans-attorney-drops-joint- happiness and peace to the city once this is in-court-resigns_n_1936367 done - just like when the statues were taken down - this truly solved every crisis https://www.nola. the city has experienced com/news/politics/article_66747443-c036- 50b5-b71d-8880f60323a5.html
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason- cantrell-new-orleans-city-attorney- suspended-after-marijuana-allegedly-falls- out-of-his-pocket-at-courthouse/ 12/1/2020 70125 1. Venerable Mother Henriette Delille 1. Second-ever Black Mother Superior n/a https://en.wikipedia. 2. Bishop Joseph Abel Francis 2. One of the first 10 openly-Black Catholic org/wiki/Black_Catholicism 3. Bishop Harold Perry bishops 4. Billie Holiday 3. First openly-Black Catholic bishop and 5. Neville second overall. 6. Claude Paschal Maistre 4. Jazz legend 7. Kerry Kittles 5. Legendary NOLA family 6. Pioneering anti-racist priest 7. NBA Legend 12/1/2020 District A, Mount Carmel Drive after the nuns of the The Mount Carmel convent/motherhouse Robert E. Lee Blvd. https://www.nola. 70124 Congregation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. on Robt E Lee Blvd is one of oldest com/entertainment_life/article_0bb74f3a- structures in the entire Lakefront are and 0cab-11eb-a8e1-cb63a3e758ff.html was . Carmelite nuns have been serving this citizens of this City for nearly TWO CENTURIES and merit this recognition, just as Ursulines and Dominicans have streets named after them 12/1/2020 70128 Lucien Lamaniere, Jr FMC 1848 - 1889 Mr. Lamanier has held several positions asking for recognition N O Republican 5/10/1891, 11/23/1872, with the City of N O and the State of LA: 11/5/1876, 11/14/1876, 2/3/1897 City Warrant officer - 1868 TP 2/27/1868, 1/19/1873 USPS letter carrier 1870 Weekly Louisianan 8/20/1881, 12/17/1881 Secretary of LA Senate 1877 Tuskegee, AL Gazette 9/25/1886 Leader of the NO Central Republican Party Weekly Pelican 7/6/1886 (obituary) 1876 US Civil, Military & Naval Service Chairman of the Colored Peoples World Directory 1863-1959 page 395 Fair 1886 Member of several carnival clubs 12/1/2020 70124 Leah Chase Morrison was a segregationist. Duncan Plaza https://www.nola. com/opinions/article_fb8095d5-2a56- Chase was a civil rights activist. 587c-9fcb-00bf0a48a654.html Duncan Plaza should be part of the City's master plan to erect monuments to Civil Rights leaders. Having a monument to a segregationist at City Hall seems contradictory to every message about equality we are sending. 12/1/2020 70124 Salvador Catalano Catalano was America's first international Washington Square as this would add https://www.whitehousehistory.org/sicilian- war hero during the 1st Barbary Coast War to Decatur Street. Gov Nichols, Gen salvador-catalano in 1804. He piloted the ship which Captain Meyer Decatur was on into Tripoli. Catalano https://www.facebook. came to the United States in 1805 was com/WhiteHouseHistory/posts/in-todays- admitted to the U.S. Navy as a reward for article-learn-the-story-of-salvador- this brave and heroic service. catalano-the-early-hero-of-the-us- /2260096880682229/ 12/1/2020 70124 Captain Salvatore Pizzati Pizzati was the first to bring bananas into Tulane Ave or Gov Nichols http://www.neworleanspast. the United States. He was a commodore of com/todayinneworleanshistory/september the Oteri-Pizzati Steamship Company 12.html which was sold to United Fruit Company in 1899. Childless, he gave donated over $150,000.00 to orphans, education, and City Park. In Buras he cultivated 14,000 orange trees. 12/1/2020 70124 Philip Mazzei The 103rd Congress of the United States Gov Nichols https://adribarrcrocetti. with Joint Resolution 175 of August 5, com/main/2012/07/03/philip-mazzei-and- 1994, recognized that “the phrase in the the-declaration-of-independence/#:~: Declaration of Independence All men are text=The%20103rd%20Congress%20of% created equal was suggested by the Italian 20the,patriot%20and%20immigrant% patriot and immigrant Philip Mazzei.” ... 20Philip%20Mazzei.%E2%80% 9D&text=No%20one%20man%20can% 20take,the%20ideals%20of% 20American%20democracy. 12/1/2020 70124 Giuseppe Garibaldi The Giuseppe Garibaldi Monument Robert E. Lee, or open to other https://www.chicagoparkdistrict. installed in Lincoln Park Chicago reads: suggestions com/parks-facilities/guiseppe-garibaldi- "He fought wars for freedom, not for monument conquest.” Garibaldi in Sept 1861 requested Lincoln make the Civil War about https://www.history.com/news/why-lincoln- ending slavery. wanted-an-italian-freedom-fighter-to-lead- his-army 11/30/2020 70124 President john quincy Adam's whom the street was It was the original name of the street and Robert e. Lee https://en.m.wikipedia. originally named. fits the theme of the lakeview area as it was org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams_and_aboliti originally intended. In addition, he was also onism anti-slavery lery link below. 11/30/2020 70124 Mount carmel drive for the sisters and/or school on They have been in lakeview for 100 years Robert e lee drive Please contact the school directly for the the street and the order has been in new orleans well full history of the order in New orleans. before the school was built. Mount carmel has a very strong alumni group through all https://www.mcacubs.com/about of metro new orleans. These sister need to be recognized for their education and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelites charity. 11/30/2020 70124 Andrew higgins His contribution to the D-day landing and Robert E. Lee street See his Wikipedia article or contact the his connection with the site that is now the world War 2 museum for more details. university of New orleans. This connects the war hero theme of lakeview and the boat construction site at UNO. 11/29/2020 District D James E. "Jimmy" Fitzmorris Mr. Fitzmorris is a former New Orleans Any street in Lakeview that is renamed. https://www.wikiwand. 70124 councilman (12 years) who represented com/simple/Jimmy_Fitzmorris Lakeview and Lt. Governor of Louisiana (8 years). He has lived in Lakeview all his life. If streets are to be renamed nobody is more deserving of a street name in Lakeview than him. 11/28/2020 70119 Fats Domino Along with Louis Armstrong and professor Not sure which street but Domino https://www.britannica. Longhair, no local musician had had a Circle would be nice. Anything named com/biography/Fats-Domino bigger impact on New Orleans music than after Leah Chase needs to be closer to Fats Domino. He is one of the architects of The Treme area. what went on to be called rock n roll. 11/28/2020 70125 Al Belletto- musician Al Belletto was a prominent saxophone Anywhere in the city https://www.google.com/amp/s/www. player and civil rights activist. He was a legacy.com/obituaries/NOLA/obituary. founding member of both the French aspx%3fn=Al-Belletto&pid=173665170 Quarter and N.O. Jazz festival, and responsible for desegregation of musicians- black musicians being allowed to play, as https://www.nola. well as receiving the same pay as white com/entertainment_life/music/article_f83e musicians. 0ebc-07d9-5a0b-ba37-da3663832e7c. html
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* Johnny Vidacovich - New Orleans drummer 11/28/2020 D Change Jackson Square to Fats Domino Park. Jackson was responsible for crimes against Change Palmer Park to Dr. John Park theadvocate.com the Cherokees and other tribes and his confiscation on land which he sold to large landowners created a bigger need or slaves. 11/27/2020 70124 Any Irish person. Keep in mind the New Basin McCrossen Avenue or Blvd. would honor Robert E Lee Blvd Www.nola.com Canal in Lakeview was dug, and died in, by the not only New Orleans firemen but also the Irish. How about McCrossen Avenue? Willie Irish who came here in the later 1800’s and McCrossen was our longest serving fire chief. built portions of the city. 11/27/2020 70124 All Veterans, to start 8 flagpoles. On the four sides of the steps supporting Lee Circle to Victory Circle Facebook Page: https://www.facebook. 6 military branches the column: com/BlueStarMemorialNewOrleans POW /MIA Flag 1. Side to honor POWs Website: www.VictoryCircle.org American Flag 2. Side to honor Purple Heart You Tube videos: 3. Side to honor MIA Explaining Blue Star Memorials https: Later statues of Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code 4. Side to honor Gold Star //www.youtube.com/watch? Talkers, showing diversity of military. v=ZCLeeCN2tLY&list=PLOdnlqTYbMMp3 Z7XKOJhDadUAnfdX8JjQ&index=3&t=21 7s
Interview on WLAE-TV https://www. youtube.com/watch? v=moHfB8Xlc_w&list=PLoaDtfLNkuNX1jx Mxvajz7_6PQ-mxrlng&index=5&t=36s 11/23/2020 70118 dist A PALMER, Earl (Earl) PALMER, hall of fame local nola PALMER AVE with a re-dedicaiton of A)Google, hundreds of usa streets named musician. SAME NAME of PALMER AVE with PALMER Ave or PALMER St, Dr, Lane, please keep existing HISTORIC DISTRICT using THE surNAME of Earl Blvd , Pkwy, all countrywide. Pls consider street name of Palmer ave which COULD "'PALMER'" that a rededication of the name is be REDEDICATED as PALMER AVE in meaningful. that bears a name PALMER. honor of (Earl) PALMER in lieu of undertaking a change of address B) New Orleans Architecture Vol VIII. University Section , historic districts pertinent to audubon park tulane university, loyola university borders ;incl yulman stadium, holy name parish church, rectory and school, temple sinai, and other surrounding mapping impacts including the multifaceted impacted actual citizen residents. of Palmer Ave. Thank you.very much for your consideration. 11/19/2020 B Earl Palmer I'd like to see Palmer Avenue dedicated to Palmer Avenue (currently named for a http://archive.boston. the memory of a famous New Orleans racist, pro-slavery minister who was com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/ musician who is considered one of the Chaplain of the Confederacy). Let's 09/22/earl_palmer_his_drums_laid_backb most-recorded drummers of all time, EARL rename it for a black man who was eat_for_birth_of_rock/ PALMER. Music is so much a part of our outstanding in his field! http://openvault.wgbh. city's culture. Let's honor one of our own! org/catalog/V_65C4E011F1AE4A0ABDFE 190010AC6D1E https://www.moderndrummer. com/2009/01/earl-palmer/ 11/19/2020 B Earl Palmer Earl Palmer is a famous musician who was n 30 years of living on Palmer Avenue, https://www.moderndrummer. born and raised in New Orleans. It seems I never realized it was named for a pro- com/2010/06/earl-palmer-2/ fitting for Palmer Avenue, which was slavery minister. I hope this honor is http://www.lamusicawards.com/act/earl- named for a racist, pro-slavery white man, removed from Rev. Palmer and instead palmer/ to be "renamed" Palmer Avenue in honor of bestowed on Earl Palmer, a New https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm- an incredibly talented black man whose Orleans native and highly regarded 2008-sep-21-me-palmer21-story.html gifts reflect the city's great culture. drummer who played jazz, R&B, rock https://www.last. and more. fm/music/Earl+Palmer/+wiki 11/8/2020 70118 Earl Palmer Palmer Avenue is currently dedicated to a Earl Palmer left NO for California in the https://acloserwalknola.com/places/earl- Civil War era New Orleanian that has been age of segregation but he never lost his palmers-house/ identified as controversial. I suggest we passion for our city. It would be great if revoke the city ordinance honoring Rev. we could honor his with a street name. https://www.theguardian. Palmer. We can then pass a new city I located his daughter in California. I'm com/music/2008/sep/23/popandrock.usa ordinance in honor of New Orleans native sure other descendants live in New and rock and roll legend, Earl Palmer. Orleans. https://www.amazon.com/Backbeat- Palmers-Story-Tony- Scherman/dp/030680980X/
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https://www.last. fm/music/Earl+Palmer/+wiki 11/6/2020 70118 Dedicate to Earl Palmer His contribution to New Orleans music, and 1734 Palmer Ave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer even more importantly, his development of https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music- a new big beat sound leading to the birth of news/rock-hall-of-fame-drummer-earl- Rock n' Roll. Without Earl Palmer's talent, palmer-dead-at-84-254915/ Rock n' Roll and American popoular music would certainly have taken a whole different path. 11/4/2020 70118-6218 I propose rededicate the street in honor of local After 20 yrs. of living on Palmer Ave., I had 1904 PALMER AVE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer musician, Earl Palmer. no idea that our street was named for a Civil War era New Orleanian, nor did I care. Palmer is a very common name. I suggest we revoke the ordinance passed in 1899 and pass a city ordinance stating that our street is named to honor EARL PALMER. 11/2/2020 70118 Do NOT name after an individual Why make one controversy into two. Palmer Avenue none Change the name. Let's not argue whether someone else is worthy or not. 10/28/2020 70122 Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez was a Governor Nicholls Street ARTICLES visionary free man of color who took up the cause of racial equality during the Civil War • United for Justice, How Two Black- and Reconstruction eras. In 1862, Owned Newspapers Launched Louisiana’ Roudanez founded L’Union, the south’s s Civil Rights Struggle. 64 Parishes. Fall first Black newspaper. In 1864, he 2020. launched the New Orleans Tribune, America's first Black daily. https://64parishes.org/united-for-justice? fbclid=IwAR0wAqhOeRDsB0vDXeEh4rCy EuDyZZRf9M6S2wpdOwPRtEliVPZlbdk4l AE
• New Plaque Honors Pioneering Black- Owned Newspapers in New Orleans. Nola.com/Advocate. Katy Reckdahl.
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• Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez: Publisher of America’s First Black Daily Newspaper. Laura Rouzan, See www.roudanez. com/history/articles. There you will find many additional articles on Roudanez.
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• The New Orleans Tribune, An Introduction to America’s First Black Daily Newspaper. Mark Roudané. Available at Community Book Center, The Shop at THNOC and other bookstores. The book can be read at https://roudanez.com/the- new-orleans-tribune/
• Our People and Our History. Rodolphe Desdunes.
• My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune. Jean-Charles Houzeau.
• Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro- Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana. Caryn Cossé Bell.
PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, VIDEOS: Visit www.roudanez.com . 10/20/2020 A Father Joseph Fichter Fr. Joseph H. Fichter was a Jesuit priest, a I believe he is being considered for Black, White and Catholic, R. Bentley sociologist who helped desegregate Patton Street. Anderson (Vanderbilt Press 2005). Catholic schools and Loyola University. Fr. Fichter joined the Loyola faculty in 1947 https://www.nytimes. and created in interracial organization of com/1994/02/26/obituaries/rev-joseph-h- catholic college students, inspiring Norman fichter-85-dies-a-jesuit-sociologist-and- Francis, Moon Landrieu and Dutch Morial. professor.html
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/25156601? seq=1 10/13/2020 70118 District A John Minor Wisdom A native New Orleanian and Palmer Palmer Ave. https://en.wikipedia. Avenue, Judge John Minor Wisdom served org/wiki/John_Minor_Wisdom from 1957 to his death in 1999 on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, where he was one of the Federal Judges most important in furthering desegregation. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993. 10/13/2020 70118 District A John Minor Wisdom (deceased) Native Orleanian and resident of Palmer Palmer Avenue wikipedia: Avenue, Judge John Minor Wisdom served https://en.wikipedia. from 1957 to his death in 1999 on the U.S. org/wiki/John_Minor_Wisdom Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, one of the Federal Judges most important in furthering Desegregation. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993. 10/7/2020 70117 Ulysses Grant It is only appropriate to replace General Lee - change it to Ulysses Grant or just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S. Lee with General Grant. Grant _Grant 10/2/2020 70127 Blaine Kern to rename Lee Circle I feel Mr. Kern was an integral part of the 4718 Cardenas Drive - NO stay the I have no article as reference. Only 66 city's culture. Since all the the parades same years of living in the community. Knowing pass the circle, I feel it's an appropriate way how with Mrs. Dorothy on the City Council to pay tribute to his legacy. they worked diligently to integrate Mardi Gras. 10/2/2020 70117 Fats Domino There is sentiment for giving some public Fats Domino lived prominently on As done for Homer Plessy Place (Press place or street in his honor. Caffin Avenue between St Claude and St) Claiborne. I suggest the name Fats Domino Place for this four-block stretch of Caffin. However please keep CAFFIN AVE the name for rest, particularly on river side.