NOLACCSRC.ORG Honorary Name Dedication Public Comments

NOLACCSRC.ORG Honorary Name Dedication Public Comments

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 WjFw12ioyn3GSfRS8qt_&index=2 In 2015, the City Council rescinded the 1877 dedication as Lee Place and it was reinstated as Tivoli Circle.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 https://www.nydailynews. com/news/national/new-orleans-attorney- drops-joint-court-article-1.1173673 https://www.inquisitr.com/352606/new- orleans-attorney-jason-cantrell-drops- marijuana-joint-in-court-gets-arrested/ 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.

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