John Lewis moved to Atlanta as a founding leader of SNCC— the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—with an impressive resume as an activist. As a Fisk University student he’d been arrested for leading sit-ins and protests. In 1961 he helped spearhead the Freedom...

The Monument No More Torture is in Padre Henrique Plaza in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Designed by the architect Demetrio Albuquerque in response to a city request for proposals, it was the first monument built in honor of the dead and disappeared during the military...

In the late 1960s and early 70s, Florida State University had a reputation as the "Berkeley of the South."  Then-FSU President J. Stanley Marshall had what, in retrospect, was a straightforward policy for mass rallies and protests on campus. Organize any kind of...

Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square. It's also the first statue in the square designed by a woman, Gillian Wearing. It was dedicated on April 25, 2018. In 1866 at the age of 19 Fawcett collected signatures for the...

The Detroit Evening News was founded in 1873 by newspaper tycoon James E. Scripps; in 1916, architect Albert Kahn was hired to design a new home for its operations. The Lafayette Boulevard facade features four statues by Corrado Parducci and five panels spelling out...

Erected in 1922, below the column which lists the name of the fallen of World War I, stands an orphan in bronze pointing to an inscription ‘Maudite soit la guerre’ (war be damned, or cursed be war.) Feelings ran so high that the memorial was not officially inaugurated...

The Albany County Crime Victims Memorial, installed in 1996,  is located in downtown Academy Park. The three standing stones are engraved with the words Truth, Hope and Justice. The center medallion reads: "Justice can be secured only if those who are not injured feel...

In 1996, when the Reverend Fr. William J. Bausch retired from St. Marys Parish in Colts Neck-- a small town about 12 miles inland from the Jersey Shore -- he gifted his congregation with a statue of Dorothy Day. Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was the founder of the Catholic...

This Cesar Chavez mural was dedicated on Cinco de Mayo (May 5) 1995 when SFSU renamed the student union as the Cesar Chavez Student Center. To learn about the symbolism, including the dove which represents nonviolence, hover over the larger image of the mural below....

In the waning days of World War II, Würzburg, a city of no military but great historical importance, was reduced to a smoldering ruin in a British fire-bomb attack. Five years before, the Germans rained down the same fate on the English city of Coventry, destroying...

Salzburger Park, a half-acre piece of land next to Emmett Park in Savannah, was the very place, on March 12, 1734, that first group of German-speaking Lutherans, known as the Salzburgers, landed in Georgia and were welcomed by General James Edward Oglethorpe. They...

Helping Hands commemorates Nobel Peace Prize winner and social reformer Jane Addams (1860–1935), who established Hull House (the nation’s first settlement house), advocated for women’s rights and founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The...

There are times when monuments ostensibly erected to glorify war also have a side that glorifies peace. Two monuments, one in Okazaki, Japan and one in the Alamo courtyard in San Antonio, bear these words commemorating the Alamo defenders and comparing their battle to...

“28 Blocks” by New York artist Garin Baker is on the Metropolitan Branch Trail: a pedestrian and cyclist commuter trail in Northeast Washington. It is visible from the New York Ave. Bridge. The mural is a tribute to the men — many of whom were the first and second...

This was built in 1899 as a Siegesdenkmal -- victory monument -- over the French in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71), on the edge of the Pfaltzwald. Because of its location, one can see across the Rhine all the way to Strasbourg (there are stairs in the back leading...