Introduction
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Jerome Meadows, Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered, dedicated June 1995, Alexandria, Virginia. Photo by Renée Ater.
Welcome
- Learning about commemorative works to the slave past for the first time?
- Expanding your knowledge about memorials and the monument landscape to slavery?
- Thinking about commissioning a memorial to the slave past in the present?
- Creating a memorial to the slave past and want to see what is out there?
Recently Added Items
Monument to Women’s Suffrage (New York City)
In July 2018 the Monumental Women Statue Fund unveiled a planned Central Park monument to women’s suffrage, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan…
Sojourner (Sacramento, CA)
Unlike many sculptural representations of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Catlett’s work is geometrized and slightly abstracted. Truth is shown with her…
Sojourner Truth (San Diego, CA)
The life-size bronze figure of Sojourner Truth holds a bible in her right hand and handbag in her left. Clad in a simple, unstructured dress, bonnet,…