Jun 11, 2020 · The post, which included a #BlackHistoryMonth hashtag, is imposed over a photo of a statue of a Black woman holding a lantern in her left hand, intimating that it was the one …

Most versions of the Black Statue of Liberty rumor refer to a cast (c. 1870) of a no longer extant maquette owned by the Museum of the City of New York as proof that “the original model” for …

Jul 10, 2020 · Social media users are circulating posts which claim that New York’s Statue of Liberty was originally modeled after an enslaved Black woman. This primary claim is false. …

Jul 13, 2022 · A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, which is the first state statue of a Black woman in Statuary Hall, is seen in the Capitol. For the first time ever, the U.S. Capitol’s National …

The statue honoring civil rights and women's rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., representing Florida in the National Statuary …

A statue of Henrietta Lacks was unveiled in Bristol in October 2021. According to The Guardian , the sculpture is "the first statue of a black woman created by a black woman for a public …

Dec 22, 2018 · “The first Statue of Liberty given to the U.S. by France was a Black woman which the U.S. rejected.” The image shows "Lady Liberty" in St. Martin, a statue that was installed in …

Jul 25, 2024 · And seated Rosa Parks was the first full-length statue of a Black person to be installed inside the U.S. Capitol, honoring the woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a …

Brick House is a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall bronze bust of a black woman by Simone Leigh, installed along New York City's High Line from 2019 to 2021. [2] [3] [4] [5] Another edition of the …

Unveiled in Emancipation Hall on April 28, 2009, the bronze bust of Sojourner Truth is the first sculpture honoring an African American woman in the U.S. Capitol.