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Name	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	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	Grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, GA	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	Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL	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.	^[5]^: 14
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]^: 13
Statue of Harriet Tubman	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	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.	^[5]^: 16
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	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.
Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved	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]

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