the movement
The "Four Spirits" in Kelly Ingram Park is a memorial for the four little girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. The sculptor is Elizabeth MacQueen.
On September 15th 1963, this church, the 16th Baptist Street Church in Birmingham, AL was bombed by four members of the Klu Klux Klan who placed 19 sticks of dynamite beneath the steps on the east side of the church. The blast killed four girls - Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Carol Denise McNair (11) and injured 22 others. This horrific act marked a turning point in the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Harriett Tubman highway marker near Buckstown, MD
The Harriett Tubman mural is located in Cambridge, MD on the exterior wall of the Harriett Tubman Museum and Educational Center. The artist is Michael Rosato and the mural was completed on May 20, 2019. The mural evokes emotion and power, honoring "Moses" - born into slavery in Dorchester County, MD. She escaped and went on to lead over 300 enslaved people to freedom. The Buckstown Village store is where Tubman was hit with an iron weight by an overseer that caused a head injury that plagued her for the rest of her life.
The Lincoln Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington DC, was completed 1922. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The 13th Amendment, which passed in 1865, made slavery illegal in the United States. "These two documents showed a nation in transition and marked a shift in America's relation to enslaved people who had been bought and sold and considered property." - Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The site of Bloody Sunday - March 7, 1965. John Lewis led civil rights marchers across this bridge in Selma, AL. The brutal attack on the marchers was televised and was a contributing factor in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. To walk in their footsteps...
Mural at the foot of he Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL
The Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
The Legacy Museum - From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration - Montgomery, AL - offers a powerful, immersive journey through America's history of racial injustice.
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on this balcony path the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. It was 1 day after he delivered "I've Been to the the Mountaintop." I could not help but cry and reflect as I captured this image from room 306.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice - A sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. Your heart is heavy as you take in the the brutality that is reflected in the beautiful memorial. While photography is allowed in the memorial (not inside of the museum), I was not comfortable taking photographs inside the structure as it felt disrespectful, but from a distance, I captured this on a rainy, foggy afternoon. I honor my people as I acknowledge their lives and the brutality that took them away. They mattered...say their names
Thousands of African Americans are unknown victims of racial terror lynchings whose deaths cannot be documented, many whose names will never be known. They are all honored here.
Juneteenth at the National Cathedral, Washington DC. On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, TX with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became know as Juneteenth day. Juneteenth became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was opened to the public in 2011. Located on the National Mall in Washington DC, and the inspiration for the design was King's "I have a dream" speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." Sculptor: Lei Yixin
Artist: Kyle Holbrook - George Floyd Square, South Minneapolis
Resistance, Persistence, and Accomplishment
Artists: Cadex Herrera, Greta McLain, and Xena Goldman - Cup Foods, Minneapolis, MN
Artists: Cadex Herrera, Greta McLain, and Xena Goldman - Cup Foods, South Minneapolis
37th Street and Park Avenue, South Minneapolis
Installation: Conner Wright and Anna Barber
Mural was painted by MOWGLIART
MURAL "BLACK LIVES MATTER" PAINTED BY DC PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
