"Bricks Thrown at Two Klansmen at Lee Circle; 3 Facing Charges"

Although New Orleanians continued to use the Lee monument to honor the birthday of the late general, this ceremony did not always go unchallenged. In this article, Roswell Thompson (self-identified as the “Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan”) and Rene La Coste (self-identified as the “Imperial Kludd of the Klan”) were celebrating Robert E. Lee’s birthday by laying out a Confederate flag and marching around Lee Circle. James N. Smith and Russell Wymen (both identified by the newspaper as “Negroes”) were charged with disturbing the peace by throwing bricks at the Klansmen.