List of monuments to African Americans

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{{see also|:Category:Slavery memorials in the United States}}

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Name

! Image

! Honoree

! Location

! Designer or
sculptor

! Date

! Comments or
inscriptions

! References

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

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| 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

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| 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

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|{{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

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| Harriet Tubman

| Las Sendas Community,

Mesa, AZ

| Jane DeDecker

|1995

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Statue of Harriet Tubman

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| 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

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|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

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| 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

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|Harriet Tubman

|Manhattan, New York City, NY

|Alison Saar

|2007

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Ray Charles memorial

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|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

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|Denmark Vesey

|Hampton Park, Charleston, SC

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|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.

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|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

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|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

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|2020

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Women's Rights Pioneers Monument

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|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

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|May 2022

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|{{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}}

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