Talk:List of monuments to African Americans
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A little explanation
editThis has been sitting in my sandbox for over a year. Honestly, I had forgotten about it. But working on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and on Isabella and William Gibbons, that I will be putting up today, I hope, I thought it would do more good to put it up now in its present imperfect state than letting it grow more mold in my sandbox. deisenbe (talk) 07:49, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
My notes on work needed to this list
editThis is why I hadn't posted this list until now. These are my own, UNEDITED notes on more work needed on this List. Since I haven't done any of it (yet) I thought it would be helpful to post them.
None to Andre Cailloux
booker t. wasington high school. columbia,s.c. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/02/racist-sexist-confederate-monuments-new-future
Emancipation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Compensated_Emancipation_Act Juneteenth
http://archive.org/stream/flblackheri00flor#page/12/mode/2up Fred Lee statue Tallahassee. Rosa Parks. Steele
Nashvilke tn capitol: the Memorial to Africans during the Middle Passage at the southwest corner of Capitol grounds.
See http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/01/03/still-standing-memphis-statues-following-confederate-monuments-controversy/977270001/ Barbara jordan http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/education/in-desire-to-grow-colleges-in-south-battle-with-roots.html?_r=0
- Alabama
- Montgomery. Memorial to slain civil rights activists erected by the Southern plc. Marked unmarked 3
- District of Columbia
- Georgetown
- Florida
Fred Douglas Lee Statue at Famu. Go through http://archive.org/stream/flblackheri00flor#page/12/mode/2up
- West Palm Beach
- Woodlawn Cemetery. A marble plaque memorialized the sixty-nine buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. But it took seventy-four years for the mass grave containing 674 black victims to receive any recognition. It wasn’t until 2002, after a dogged campaign by community activists, that the city of West Palm Beach purchased the land and finally marked the grave site. (Quote from Muck City, chapter 2.
- West Palm Beach
- Oklahoma
- in 2010 the State of Oklahoma and the City of Tulsa fonally established a well-maintained memorial park dedicated to the events of May 31, 1921. Marked Unmarked p. 36
- South Carolina
- Columbia - monument to African-American history South Carolina State House. Also see on Strom Thurman there
- Tennessee
- Memphis
- King
- Nashville
- Monument to the 14th and 15th amendments https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/08/14/charlottesville-protests-take-aim-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-tennessee-capitol/564351001/
- Monument to Sampson W. Keeble, the first black state lawmaker in Tennessee https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/08/14/charlottesville-protests-take-aim-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-tennessee-capitol/564351001/
- Memphis
- Texas
- state capital, not built https://www.texasobserver.org/hidden-confederate-history-texas-capitol-unofficial-guide/
- Virginia
- Charlottesville
- In June, the University of Virginia announced plans for a large and visible memorial to commemorate the estimated 5,000 enslaved people who helped build and take care of the school in its early years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/while-others-tear-down-monuments-some-universities-are-building-new-ones/2017/12/24/b4c5388e-d37f-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.48f36650fe9f
- Richmond: Arthur Ashe Monument
research. And an eight-foot-tall sculpture stands, until mid-December, in front of the historical home of early Princeton presidents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/while-others-tear-down-monuments-some-universities-are-building-new-ones/2017/12/24/b4c5388e-d37f-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.48f36650fe9f
The sculpture, by Titus Kaphar and commissioned by the Princeton University Art Museum, layers portraits of the school president from 1761 to 1766 with those of a black man, woman and child. They represent the slaves who worked at the president’s home and those who were sold at auction on that site. deisenbe (talk) 07:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
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