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Name Image Honoree Location Designer orsculptor Date Comments orinscriptions ReferencesBust of YorkYork (explorer)Mount Tabor Park, Portland, OregonTodd McGrainFebruary 2021Toppled in July, 2021. Patriot Front is suspected.Robert Gould Shaw MemorialAfrican American Civil War SoldiersBoston Common, Boston, MAAugustus Saint-Gaudens1897.Statue of Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassFrederick Douglass Memorial Square, Rochester, NYSidney W. Edwards1899Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester. Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort Colored soldiers Green Hill Cemetery, Frankfort, KY 1924Victory MonumentEighth Regiment of the Illinois National GuardDouglas, Chicago, ILLeonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden1927 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 Fuller1913; cast in bronze 1999 .El Hombre RedimidoPonce, Puerto RicoVictor M. Cott 1956Commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico Expelled Because of Color 33 Georgia legislators Grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, GA John Thomas Riddle, Jr.1978 Commemorates the Original 33.Civil Rights Memorial41 civil rights leadersMontgomery, ALMaya Lin1989Amistad MemorialSengbe PiehNew Haven City Hall, New Haven, CTEd Hamilton1992 Statue of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Las Sendas Community, Mesa, AZ Jane DeDecker1995 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 1997Statue of Malcolm XMalcolm XMalcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York City, NYGabriel Koren1997Harriet Tubman MemorialHarriet TubmanHarriet Tubman Park, Boston, MAFern Cunningham1999African American History MonumentSouth Carolina State House, Columbia, South CarolinaEd Dwight2001The history of African Americans in South Carolina from the slave trade to modern times. Sojourner Truth MemorialSojourner TruthFlorence, MA2002African-American MonumentAfrican AmericansSavannah, GADorothy Spradley2002Integration Maxwell Courtney;Doby Flowers;Fred Flowers Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL W. Stanley Proctor2004 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 TubmanHarriet TubmanLittle Rock, ARJane DeDecker2004Statue 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 DeDecker2005C. K. Steele Statue and Plaza Reverend C. K. Steele Tallahassee, FL David Lowe2005 Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s.Harriet Tubman MemorialHarriet TubmanManhattan, New York City, NYAlison Saar2007Ray Charles memorialRay CharlesGreenville, FLBradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr2006He grew up in Greenville.29th Colored Regiment Monument29th Connecticut Colored Infantry RegimentNew Haven, CTEd Hamilton2008Statue of Frederick DogulassFrederick DouglassHarlem, New York City, NYGabriel Koren2009Bust of Sojourner TruthSojourner TruthU.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.Artis Lane2009Frederick Douglass StatueFrederick DouglassTalbot County Courthouse, Easton, MDJay Hall Carpenter2011Douglass was from Talbot County.Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassU.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.Steven Weitzman2013Statue of Rosa ParksRosa ParksU.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.Eugene Daub2013Sojourner Truth MemorialSojourner TruthEsopus, NYTrina Greene2013Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus.Denmark Vesey MonumentDenmark VeseyHampton Park, Charleston, SC2014Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a BibleSlavery MemorialBrown University, Providence, RIMartin Puryear2014Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassUniversity of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MDAndrew Edwards2015Douglass was from Marylander.Benjamin Banneker statueBenjamin BannekerNational Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.2016Statue 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 ParityOctavius CattoPhiladelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PABranly Cadet2017National Memorial for Peace and JusticeVictims of lynchingMontgomery, ALKwame Akoto-Bamfo, Hank Willis Thomas, MASS Design Group2018Six acre site, with 805 hanging steel replicas of coffins.Memorial to Enslaved LaborersEnslaved laborers at the University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA2020Women's Rights Pioneers MonumentSojourner TruthCentral Park, New York City, NYMeredith Bergmann2020Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady StantonStatue of Mary McLeod BethuneMary McLeod BethuneU.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.FutureTo represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.Hearth: Memorial to the EnslavedAfrican Americans enslaved by the College of William & MaryCollege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VAMay 2022Monument to 1st Rhode Island RegimentAfrican American soldiers of 1st Rhode Island Regiment who died in the 1781 Revolutionary War Battle of Pine's Bridgechurch cemetery in Yorktown Heights, New York1982Pines Bridge MonumentSoldiers and officers of the racially integrated 1st Rhode Island Regiment who died in the 1781 Battle of Pine's BridgeYorktown Heights, New YorkThomas Jay Warren2018Sculpture depicts commanding officer Col. Christopher Greene and two of his soldiers—an African American and a Native American.Emancipation and Freedom MonumentEmancipated slavesBrown's Island, Richmond, VirginiaThomas Jay Warren2021replaces the Robert E. Lee Monument Enslaved Africans' Raingarden five of the first enslaved people to be freed from slavery in the state of New York Yonkers, New York Vinnie Bagwell 2020 Associated with Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site The First Lady of Jazz Ella Fitzgerald Yonkers, New York Vinnie Bagwell 1996 Depicts Fitzgerald singing with open arms and "snapping fingers." (Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson Paul Robeson Washington, D.C. Allen Uzikee Nelson 2001 Abstract steel statue of the singer, professional football player, author, and activist, formally dedicated on the 103rd anniversary of his birth. Mothers of Gynecology MonumentBetsey Anarcha LucyMontgomery Ala.Michelle Browder2021This monument honors each woman with unique qualities embedded in their renderings. Betsey has the names of Black women which include Harriet Jacobs and Augusta Savage and Angela Davis 1

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