Mammy memorial facts for kids

Although never given an official name, a "Mammy memorial" was a proposed memorial to be located in the District of Columbia that would have honored mammys in the United States. Proposed by Congressman Charles Manly Stedman from North Carolina in 1923, and immediately condemned by African Americans and other groups such as the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic and the New York World newspaper (which argued that while the monument was unobjectionable, the effort spent on it would be better used improving the lives of living blacks), the monument would have been located along Massachusetts Avenue.