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The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent national memorial was dedicated in 1922.
Frederick Douglass is a 2013 bronze sculpture depicting the American abolitionist and politician of the same name by Steven Weitzman, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C. [1]
The 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) bronze statue depicts Mahatma Gandhi in ascetic garb, in reference to his 1930 march against the salt tax in India. It was designed by Gautam Pal , a sculptor from Kolkata . The statue is mounted on a 16 ton plinth of ruby granite from Ilkal , Karnataka, standing in a circular plaza of gray granite pavers.
The Pike statue was torn down on Juneteenth 2020, as part of the George Floyd protests. [4] [5] Two Union admirals are honored, although Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont's statue was removed to Wilmington, Delaware, and he is now honored with a fountain. Other statues depict nuns, peace, emancipation, and the Grand Army of the Republic.
Members of the Johnny Cash family at the dedication ceremony to unveil the statue of Johnny Cash in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.
The memorials include the name of the capital of Nebraska (1867). The first public monument to Abraham Lincoln, after his death, was a statue erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after his assassination.
The statue was built in 1914, and includes depicitions of enslaved African Americans. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
[2] 15 statues have since then been removed and replaced. The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble . Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection.