List of monuments to African Americans facts for kids
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Name | Image | Honoree | Location | Designer or sculptor |
Date | Comments or inscriptions |
References |
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Bust of York | York (explorer) | Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon | Todd McGrain | February 2021 | Toppled in July, 2021. Patriot Front is suspected. | ||
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial | African American Civil War Soldiers | Boston Common,Boston, MA | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 1897 | |||
Statue of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass Memorial Square, | Sidney W. Edwards | 1899 | Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester. | ||
Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort | Colored soldiers | Green Hill Cemetery, Frankfort, KY | 1924 | ||||
Victory Monument | Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard | Douglas, Chicago, IL | Leonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden | 1927 | |||
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors | Colored soldiers and sailors | Philadelphia, PA | J. Otto Schweizer | 1934 | |||
Mothers of Gynecology Monument | Anarcha Westcott, Betsey, Lucy | Montgomery, AL | Michelle Browder | 2021 | The women were patients of J. Marion Sims. | ||
John Brown and African-American child | Enslaved African Americans | John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY | Joseph Pollia | 1935 | The adult is John Brown. | ||
Emancipation | Three slaves | Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller | 1913; cast in bronze 1999 | |||
El Hombre Redimido | Ponce, Puerto Rico | Victor M. Cott | 1956 | Commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico | |||
Expelled Because of Color | 33 Georgia legislators | Grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, | John Thomas Riddle, Jr. | 1978 | Commemorates the Original 33. | ||
Civil Rights Memorial | 41 civil rights leaders | Montgomery, AL | Maya Lin | 1989 | |||
Amistad Memorial | Sengbe Pieh | New Haven City Hall, New Haven, CT | Ed Hamilton | 1992 | |||
Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Las Sendas Community, | Jane DeDecker | 1995 | |||
Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Brenau University, Gainesville, GA | Jane DeDecker | 1997 | |||
Duke Ellington Circle | Duke Ellington | Manhattan, New York City, NY | Robert Graham | 1997 | |||
Statue of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York City, NY | Gabriel Koren | 1997 | |||
Harriet Tubman Memorial | Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA | Fern Cunningham | 1999 | |||
African American History Monument | South Carolina State House, Columbia, South Carolina | Ed Dwight | 2001 | The history of African Americans in South Carolina from the slave trade to modern times. | |||
Sojourner Truth Memorial | Sojourner Truth | Florence, MA | 2002 | ||||
African-American Monument | African Americans | Savannah, GA | Dorothy Spradley | 2002 | |||
Integration | Maxwell Courtney; Doby Flowers; Fred Flowers |
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL | W. Stanley Proctor | 2004 | 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. | ||
Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Little Rock, AR | Jane DeDecker | 2004 | |||
Statue of Fred Lee Douglas | Fred Lee Douglas | Frenchtown,Tallahassee, FL, | 2004 | Douglas was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat. | |||
Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Ypsilanti, MI | Jane DeDecker | 2005 | |||
C. K. Steele Statue and Plaza | Reverend C. K. Steele | Tallahassee, FL | David Lowe | 2005 | Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s. | ||
Harriet Tubman Memorial |
Harriet Tubman | Manhattan, New York City, NY | Alison Saar | 2007 | |||
Ray Charles memorial | Ray Charles | Greenville, FL | Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr | 2006 | He grew up in Greenville. | ||
29th Colored Regiment Monument | 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment | New Haven, CT | Ed Hamilton | 2008 | |||
Statue of Frederick Dogulass | Frederick Douglass | Harlem, New York City, NY | Gabriel Koren | 2009 | |||
Bust of Sojourner Truth | Sojourner Truth | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Artis Lane | 2009 | |||
Frederick Douglass Statue | Frederick Douglass | Talbot County Courthouse, Easton, MD | Jay Hall Carpenter | 2011 | Douglass was from Talbot County. | ||
Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Steven Weitzman | 2013 | |||
Statue of Rosa Parks | Rosa Parks | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Eugene Daub | 2013 | |||
Sojourner Truth Memorial | Sojourner Truth | Esopus, NY | Trina Greene | 2013 | Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus. | ||
Denmark Vesey Monument | Denmark Vesey | Hampton Park, Charleston, SC | 2014 | Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a Bible | |||
Slavery Memorial | Brown University, Providence, RI | Martin Puryear | 2014 | ||||
Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD | Andrew Edwards | 2015 | Douglass was from Marylander. | ||
Benjamin Banneker statue | Benjamin Banneker | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | 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) | |||
The Quest for Parity | Octavius Catto | Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA | Branly Cadet | 2017 | |||
National Memorial for Peace and Justice | Victims of lynching | Montgomery, AL | Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Hank Willis Thomas, MASS Design Group | 2018 | Six acre site, with 805 hanging steel replicas of coffins. | ||
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers | Enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 2020 | ||||
Women's Rights Pioneers Monument | Sojourner Truth | Central Park, New York City, NY | Meredith Bergmann | 2020 | Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune | Mary McLeod Bethune | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Future | To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. | |||
Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved | African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary | College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA | May 2022 | ||||
Emancipation and Freedom Monument | Emancipated slaves | Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia | Thomas Jay Warren | 2021 | replaces the Robert E. Lee Monument |
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