List of monuments to African Americans explained

This list may include memorials but does not include plaques or historical markers.

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Name	Image	Honoree	Location	Designer or sculptor	Date	Comments or inscriptions	References
Bust of York		York (explorer)	Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon	Todd McGrain	February 2021	Toppled in July, 2021. Patriot Front is suspected.
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial		African American Civil War Soldiers	Boston Common,Boston, MA	Augustus Saint-Gaudens	1897		^[1]
Statue of Frederick Douglass		Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass Memorial Square,Rochester, NY	Sidney W. Edwards	1899	Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester.
Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort		Colored soldiers	Green Hill Cemetery, Frankfort, KY		1924
Victory Monument		Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard	Douglas, Chicago, IL	Leonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden	1927
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors	150px	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.	^[2]
Emancipation		Three slaves	Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA	Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller	1913; cast in bronze 1999		^[3]
El Hombre Redimido			Ponce, Puerto Rico	Victor M. Cott	1956	Commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico
Expelled Because of Color		33 Georgia legislators		John Thomas Riddle, Jr.	1978	Commemorates the Original 33.
Civil Rights Memorial		41 civil rights leaders	Montgomery, AL	Maya Lin	1989		^[4]
Amistad Memorial		Sengbe Pieh	New Haven City Hall, New Haven, CT	Ed Hamilton	1992
Statue of Harriet Tubman		Harriet Tubman	Las Sendas Community,Mesa, AZ	Jane DeDecker	1995
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	1997
Statue of Malcolm X		Malcolm X	Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York City, NY	Gabriel Koren	1997
Harriet Tubman Memorial		Harriet Tubman	Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA	Fern Cunningham	1999
African American History Monument			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.
Sojourner Truth Memorial		Sojourner Truth	Florence, MA		2002
African-American Monument		African Americans	Savannah, GA	Dorothy Spradley	2002
Integration		Maxwell Courtney; Doby Flowers; Fred Flowers		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.
Statue of Harriet Tubman		Harriet Tubman	Little Rock, AR	Jane DeDecker	2004
Statue of Fred Lee Douglas		Fred Lee Douglas	Frenchtown,Tallahassee, FL,		2004	Douglas was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat.	^[5]
Statue of Harriet Tubman	150px	Harriet Tubman	Ypsilanti, MI	Jane DeDecker	2005
C. K. Steele Statue and Plaza		Reverend C. K. Steele	Tallahassee, FL	David Lowe	2005	Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s.
Harriet Tubman Memorial	150px	Harriet Tubman	Manhattan, New York City, NY	Alison Saar	2007
Ray Charles memorial		Ray Charles	Greenville, FL	Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr	2006	He grew up in Greenville.
29th Colored Regiment Monument		29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment	New Haven, CT	Ed Hamilton	2008
Statue of Frederick Dogulass		Frederick Douglass	Harlem, New York City, NY	Gabriel Koren	2009
Bust of Sojourner Truth		Sojourner Truth	U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.	Artis Lane	2009
Frederick Douglass Statue		Frederick Douglass	Talbot County Courthouse, Easton, MD	Jay Hall Carpenter	2011	Douglass was from Talbot County.	^[6]
Frederick Douglass		Frederick Douglass	U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.	Steven Weitzman	2013
Statue of Rosa Parks		Rosa Parks	U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.	Eugene Daub	2013
Sojourner Truth Memorial		Sojourner Truth	Esopus, NY	Trina Greene	2013	Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus.	^[7]
Denmark Vesey Monument	150px	Denmark Vesey	Hampton Park, Charleston, SC		2014	Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a Bible
Slavery Memorial			Brown University, Providence, RI	Martin Puryear	2014
Frederick Douglass		Frederick Douglass	University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD	Andrew Edwards	2015	Douglass was from Marylander.
Benjamin Banneker statue		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)
The Quest for Parity		Octavius Catto	Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA	Branly Cadet	2017
National Memorial for Peace and Justice		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.
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers		Enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA		2020
Women's Rights Pioneers Monument		Sojourner Truth	Central Park, New York City, NY	Meredith Bergmann	2020	Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton	^[8]
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune		Mary McLeod Bethune	U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.		Future	To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
		African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary	College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA		May 2022		^[9]
Emancipation and Freedom Monument		Emancipated slaves	Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia	Thomas Jay Warren	2021	replaces the Robert E. Lee Monument	^[10] ^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160504094805/https://www.nps.gov/boaf/learn/historyculture/shaw.htm. May 4, 2016. History and Culture: Boston African American National Historic Site, Massachusetts. National Park Service. November 22, 2020. .
2. Web site: John Brown Statue, (sculpture). Smithsonian American Art Museum: Art Inventory Catalog. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). November 22, 2020. November 22, 2020. 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. dead. .
3. Web site: Emancipation: A Statue and A Trail. Boston Women's Heritage Trail. November 23, 2020. June 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160615123820/http://bwht.org/emanicipation-a-statue-and-a-trail/. dead. .
4. News: Tauber. Peter. 1991-02-24. Monument Maker. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-08-11. 0362-4331.
5. Web site: Florida Black Heritage Trail. Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. March 2011. Tallahassee, Florida.
6. Smith. Clint. September 2020. Looking for Frederick Douglass. The Atlantic. 18–21. Clint Smith (writer).
7. Web site: September 16, 2013. Town to Unveil Sojourner Truth Statue. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190924010542/http://www.mindfulwalker.com/beyond-gotham/town-to-unveil-sojourner-truth-statue. September 24, 2019. Mindful Walker. August 22, 2020.
8. News: Hines. Morgan. August 26, 2020. 'We have broken the bronze ceiling': First monument to real women unveiled in NYC's Central Park. USA Today. live. August 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200829165512/https://news.yahoo.com/broken-bronze-ceiling-first-monument-162733725.html. August 29, 2020.
9. Web site: William & Mary dedicates memorial to enslaved 'acknowledging our history' . WTVR . Associated Press . 31 August 2022 . en . 7 May 2022.
10. Web site: Shivaram. Deepa. September 22, 2021. An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed. 2021-09-22. NPR. en.
11. Web site: Coleburn. Caroline. Thompson. Cameron. 2021-09-22. Emancipation and Freedom Monument unveiled on Brown's Island in Richmond. 2021-09-22. WTVR. en.