I’ll bet that 75% (I’m being generous...) of the blacks in New Orleans don’t know who Robert E. Lee was.
I went to grade school in Arlington, VA. Every so often we would have a field trip to Arlington cemetery that would include a visit to the Custis-Lee mansion.
My third grade year, must have been 1959, we went there one morning. Back at school that afternoon a few of us were walking back to class and the black janitor, must have been in his 60s, spoke to us: “Did you little kids go to the Custis-Lee house today?” We said “yeah” and he said “My momma worked there when she was a little girl. She helped Mrs Robert E Lee.”
He was proud of his connection to history. I was impressed enough that I still remember it, he was a living connection to the Civil War. This was before the PC gestapo had showed up to spread their bile throughout American life. I’ll bet that old janitor’s family keeps that family story to themselves these days.