List of monuments to African Americans facts for kids

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Name of person honored	Image	Location	Designer/ sculptor	Statue name Wikilink	Date	Comments/ inscriptions	References
Victims of lynching		Montgomery, Alabama	Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Hank Willis Thomas	The National Memorial for Peace and Justice	2018	Six acre site, with 805 hanging steel replicas of coffins.
Mary McLeod Bethune		U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.			Legislation passed, artist chosen, under construction	To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
Enslaved African Americans		John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, New York	Joseph Pollia		1935	The adult is John Brown (abolitionist).
Octavius Catto		Philadelphia City Hall	Branly Cadet	The Quest for Parity	2017
Frederick Douglass		Manhattan, New York City, Frederick Douglass Circle	Gabriel Koren		2009
Frederick Douglass		College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland	Andrew Edwards	Frederick Douglass (Edwards)	2015	Douglass was a Marylander.
Frederick Douglass			Easton, Maryland, Talbot County Courthouse		2011	Douglass was from Talbot County.
Frederick Douglass		Washington, D.C., U.S. Capitol	Steven Weitzman	Frederick Douglass (Weitzman)	2013
Enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia		Charlottesville, Virginia		Memorial to Enslaved Laborers	2020
African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary		College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia		Memorial to the African Americans Enslaved by William & Mary		Design decided; construction to begin in 2021.
Denmark Vesey		Charleston, South Carolina, Hampton Park			2014	Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a Bible
Malcolm X		New York City, Manhattan, Audubon Ballroom	Gabriel Koren
Benjamin Banneker		Washington, D.C., National Museum of African American History and Culture			2016	Statue stands in front of a plan of the City of Washington, which Banneker did not plan, design or survey (see Mythology of Benjamin Banneker and List of common misconceptions)
Colored soldiers and sailors		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	J. Otto Schweizer	All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors	1934
Colored soldiers		Green Hill Cemetery, at the junction of US 60 and US 421,Frankfort, Kentucky		Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort	1924
Harriet Tubman		Manhattan, New York City	Alison Saar	"Swing Low" Harriet Tubman Memorial (New York City)	2007
Harriet Tubman		Boston, Massachusetts, Harriet Tubman Park	Fern Cunningham	Harriet Tubman Memorial (Boston)? Also known as Step On Board.
Sojourner Truth		Washington, D.C., United States Capital	Artis Lane		2009
Sojourner Truth		Central Park (New York)	Meredith Bergmann	Women's Rights Pioneers Monument	2020	Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth	Florence, Massachusetts
Sojourner Truth		Esopus, New York	Trina Greene		2013	Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus.
33 Georgia legistators		Atlanta, Georgia, grounds of the Georgia State Capitol	John Thomas Riddle, Jr.	Expelled Because of Color		Commemorates the Original 33.
Three slaves		Boston, Massachusetts, Harriet Tubman Park	Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller	Emancipation (Fuller)		1913; cast in bronze 1999
Ray Charles		Greenville, Florida, downtown, on U.S. 90				He grew up in Greenville.
Maxwell Courtney; Dobey Flowers; Fred Flowers		Tallahassee, Florida, campus of Florida State University				Portrays Maxwell Courtney, the first African-American to enroll and graduate; Doby Flowers, the first black Miss Florida State University; and Fred Flowers, first black varsity athlete.
Rosa Parks		Washington, D.C. U.S. Capitol Rotunda	Eugene Daub		2013
Harriet Tubman		Ypsilanti, Michigan	Jane DeDecker	Statue of Harriet Tubman (DeDecker)	2005
Harriet Tubman		Little Rock, Arkansas, 1200 President Clinton Ave	Jane DeDecker	Statue of Harriet Tubman (DeDecker)
Harriet Tubman		Gainesville, Georgia Campus of Brenau University.	Jane DeDecker	Statue of Harriet Tubman (DeDecker)	1997
Duke Ellington		Manhattan, New York City, 5th Avenue and 110 St.	Robert Graham	Duke Ellington Circle	1997
Harriet Tubman		Mesa, Arizona, Las Sendas Community	Jane DeDecker	Statue of Harriet Tubman (DeDecker)
Fred Lee Douglas		Tallahassee, Florida, Frenchtown, corner of Macomb and Georgia St.			2004	Douglas was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat.
Reverend C. K. Steele		Tallahassee, Florida, City Bus Terminal, C.K. Steele Plaza	David Lowe		2005	Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s.
African American Civil War Soldiers		Boston, Massachusetts, opposite 24 Beacon Street (at the edge of Boston Common)	Augustus Saint-Gaudens	Robert Gould Shaw Memorial	May 31, 1897