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Name
! Image
! Honoree
! Location
! Designer or sculptor
! Date
! Comments or inscriptions
! References |
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Bust of York
|150px
|York (explorer)
|Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon
|Todd McGrain
|February 2021
|Toppled in July, 2021. Patriot Front is suspected.
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Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
|150px
|African American Civil War Soldiers
|Boston Common,Boston, MA
|Augustus Saint-Gaudens
|1897
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|[{{cite web|title=Robert Gould Shaw Memorial|url=https://home.nps.gov/boaf/learn/historyculture/shaw.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504094805/https://www.nps.gov/boaf/learn/historyculture/shaw.htm|archive-date=May 4, 2016|work=History and Culture: Boston African American National Historic Site, Massachusetts|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=November 22, 2020}}.] |
Statue of Frederick Douglass
|200x200px
|Frederick Douglass
|Frederick Douglass Memorial Square,
Rochester, NY
|Sidney W. Edwards
|1899
|Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester.
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Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort
| 150px
| Colored soldiers
| Green Hill Cemetery, Frankfort, KY
|
| 1924
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Victory Monument
|200x200px
|Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard
|Douglas, Chicago, IL
|Leonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden
|1927
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All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors
| 150px
| Colored soldiers and sailors
| Philadelphia, PA
| J. Otto Schweizer
| 1934
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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
| 150px
| Enslaved African Americans
| John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY
| Joseph Pollia
| 1935
| The adult is John Brown.
|[{{cite web|url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=146L610BC0514.2957&uri=full%3D3100001~%21341126~%2119&ri=1&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&term=pollia|title=John Brown Statue, (sculpture)|work=Smithsonian American Art Museum: Art Inventory Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)|accessdate=November 22, 2020|archive-date=November 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122194427/https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=146L610BC0514.2957&uri=full%3D3100001~%21341126~%2119&ri=1&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&term=pollia|url-status=dead}}.] |
Emancipation
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| Three slaves
| Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA
| Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
|1913; cast in bronze 1999
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| [{{Cite web|url=http://bwht.org/emanicipation-a-statue-and-a-trail/|title=Emancipation: A Statue and A Trail|publisher=Boston Women's Heritage Trail|accessdate=November 23, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615123820/http://bwht.org/emanicipation-a-statue-and-a-trail/|url-status=dead}}.] |
El Hombre Redimido
|205x205px
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|Ponce, Puerto Rico
|Victor M. Cott
|1956
|Commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico
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Expelled Because of Color
|
| 33 Georgia legislators
| Grounds of the Georgia State Capitol,
Atlanta, GA
| John Thomas Riddle, Jr.
|1978
| Commemorates the Original 33.
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Civil Rights Memorial
|150x150px
|41 civil rights leaders
|Montgomery, AL
|Maya Lin
|1989
|
|[{{Cite news|last=Tauber|first=Peter|date=1991-02-24|title=Monument Maker|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/magazine/monument-maker.html|access-date=2021-08-11|issn=0362-4331}}] |
Amistad Memorial
|150x150px
|Sengbe Pieh
|New Haven City Hall, New Haven, CT
|Ed Hamilton
|1992
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Statue of Harriet Tubman
|
| Harriet Tubman
| Las Sendas Community,
Mesa, AZ
| Jane DeDecker
|1995
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Statue of Harriet Tubman
|
| Harriet Tubman
| Brenau University, Gainesville, GA
| Jane DeDecker
| 1997
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Duke Ellington Circle
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| Duke Ellington
| Manhattan, New York City, NY
| Robert Graham
| 1997
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Statue of Malcolm X
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|Malcolm X
|Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York City, NY
|Gabriel Koren
|1997
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Harriet Tubman Memorial
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|Harriet Tubman
|Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA
|Fern Cunningham
|1999
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African American History Monument
|
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|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.
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Sojourner Truth Memorial
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|Sojourner Truth
|Florence, MA
|
|2002
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African-American Monument
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|African Americans
|Savannah, GA
|Dorothy Spradley
|2002
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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.
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Statue of Harriet Tubman
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|Harriet Tubman
|Little Rock, AR
|Jane DeDecker
|2004
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Statue of Fred Lee Douglas
|
| Fred Lee Douglas
| Frenchtown,Tallahassee, FL,
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| 2004
| Douglas was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat.
| [{{cite web|title=Florida Black Heritage Trail|publisher=Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources|date=March 2011|url=https://archive.org/stream/flblackheri00flor#page/15/mode/1up|location=Tallahassee, Florida}}]{{rp|13}} |
Statue of Harriet Tubman
| 150px
| Harriet Tubman
| Ypsilanti, MI
| Jane DeDecker
|2005
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C. K. Steele Statue and Plaza
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| Reverend C. K. Steele
| Tallahassee, FL
| David Lowe
|2005
| Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s.
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Harriet Tubman Memorial
|
|Harriet Tubman
|Manhattan, New York City, NY
|Alison Saar
|2007
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Ray Charles memorial
|
|Ray Charles
|Greenville, FL
|Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr
|2006
|He grew up in Greenville.
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29th Colored Regiment Monument
|150x150px
|29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment
|New Haven, CT
|Ed Hamilton
|2008
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Statue of Frederick Dogulass
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|Frederick Douglass
|Harlem, New York City, NY
|Gabriel Koren
|2009
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Bust of Sojourner Truth
|150px
|Sojourner Truth
|U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
|Artis Lane
|2009
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Frederick Douglass Statue
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|Frederick Douglass
|Talbot County Courthouse, Easton, MD
|Jay Hall Carpenter
|2011
|Douglass was from Talbot County.
|[{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Clint|date=September 2020|title=Looking for Frederick Douglass|journal=The Atlantic|pages=18–21|authorlink=Clint Smith (writer)}}] |
Frederick Douglass
|File:Frederick Douglass statue NSHC.jpg
|Frederick Douglass
|U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
|Steven Weitzman
|2013
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Statue of Rosa Parks
|299x299px
|Rosa Parks
|U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
|Eugene Daub
|2013
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Sojourner Truth Memorial
|150px
|Sojourner Truth
|Esopus, NY
|Trina Greene
|2013
|Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus.
|[{{cite web|date=September 16, 2013|title=Town to Unveil Sojourner Truth Statue|url=http://www.mindfulwalker.com/beyond-gotham/town-to-unveil-sojourner-truth-statue|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924010542/http://www.mindfulwalker.com/beyond-gotham/town-to-unveil-sojourner-truth-statue|archive-date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Mindful Walker|accessdate=August 22, 2020}}] |
Denmark Vesey Monument
|
|Denmark Vesey
|Hampton Park, Charleston, SC
|
|2014
|Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a Bible
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Slavery Memorial
|
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|Brown University, Providence, RI
|Martin Puryear
|2014
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Frederick Douglass
|150px
|Frederick Douglass
|University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
|Andrew Edwards
|2015
|Douglass was from Marylander.
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Benjamin Banneker statue
|150px
|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)
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The Quest for Parity
|
|Octavius Catto
|Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
|Branly Cadet
|2017
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
|150px
|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.
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Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
|150px
|Enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia
|Charlottesville, VA
|
|2020
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Women's Rights Pioneers Monument
|
|Sojourner Truth
|Central Park, New York City, NY
|Meredith Bergmann
|2020
|Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
|[{{cite news|last=Hines|first=Morgan|date=August 26, 2020|title='We have broken the bronze ceiling': First monument to real women unveiled in NYC's Central Park|newspaper=USA Today|url=https://news.yahoo.com/broken-bronze-ceiling-first-monument-162733725.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829165512/https://news.yahoo.com/broken-bronze-ceiling-first-monument-162733725.html|archive-date=August 29, 2020}}] |
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune
|150px
|Mary McLeod Bethune
|U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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|Future
|To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
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Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved
|150px
|African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary
|College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
|
|May 2022
|
|[{{cite web |title=William & Mary dedicates memorial to enslaved 'acknowledging our history' |url=https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/william-mary-dedicates-hearth-memorial-to-enslaved-south-wren-yard |website=WTVR |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=31 August 2022 |language=en |date=7 May 2022}}] |
Emancipation and Freedom Monument
|150 px
|Emancipated slaves
|Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia
|Thomas Jay Warren
|2021
|replaces the Robert E. Lee Monument
|[{{Cite web|last=Shivaram|first=Deepa|date=September 22, 2021|title=An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039333919/new-emancipation-statue-richmond-virginia-monument|access-date=2021-09-22|website=NPR|language=en}}][{{Cite web|last1=Coleburn|first1=Caroline|last2=Thompson|first2=Cameron|date=2021-09-22|title=Emancipation and Freedom Monument unveiled on Brown's Island in Richmond|url=https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/emancipation-and-freedom-monument-richmond|access-date=2021-09-22|website=WTVR|language=en}}] |