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The Samuel Gompers Memorial is a bronze collection of statues in Washington, D.C., sited on a triangular park at the intersection of 11th Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and N Street NW. Samuel Gompers was an English-born American who grew up working in cigar factories, where he witnessed the long hours and dangerous conditions people experienced ...
Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 – December 11, 1924) [1] [2] was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
Public Law 95-260 was passed by Congress in 1978 to create a memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town.
Samuel Gompers at 10th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW; Ulysses S. Grant on the National Mall; Nathanael Greene in Stanton Park NE; Théodore Guérin on the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception [2] Samuel Hahnemann at 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW; Nathan Hale at Ninth Street and Constitution ...
The Samuel Gompers House is a historic house at 2122 1st Street NW, in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built around the turn of the 20th century, it was from 1902 until 1917 home to Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), who was founder and president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death.
During World War II, ... In 1911 Samuel Gompers, the head of the AFL, ... John L. Lewis Museum of Mining and Labor in Lucas, Iowa;
The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. Founded in 2000, it was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2004. [2] The museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum, [3] as part of the Smithsonian Institution's outreach program. [4]
After the Civil War, there were plans to erect a significant number of memorials in Washington, D.C., honoring men who served in the Union Army.Admiral David Dixon Porter wanted to also honor Union Navy sailors amongst the memorials.