by Susan | Sep 14, 2026 | Monuments
Just before midnight on September 15, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, a priest from the small town of Dolores near Guanajuato ordered the church bells to be rung and cried out to the native Mexicans and the working classes of mixed origin, urging them to stand up and take back...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2026 | Monuments
The Eastlake Park Civil Rights Memorial, titled Peace, was created in 1997 to reflect the history of the civil rights movement in the United States and Arizona. The memorial comprises a small concrete amphitheater covered by an arched steel canopy modeled after the...
by Susan | Jul 6, 2026 | Monuments
Following a presentation by Alfred Tibor, a Holocaust survivor and sculptor, Trinity Lutheran Seminary President Dennis Anderson asked Mr. Tibor to produce a sketch for a public sculpture to be placed in a prominent position on the Trinity campus. The president gave...
by Susan | May 11, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
In 1968, Clayborn Temple, an African Methodist Episcopal congregation, became headquarters for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, which began when two African American sanitation workers were killed in an accident on a city truck. Starting in February, nearly...
by Susan | May 4, 2026 | Monuments
This polished black granite memorial to everyone who helped advance the movement for civil rights for African Americans in Lee County from the 1950s-1970s is in front of the Lee County Courthouse. The monument is cut in the shape of the state of Mississippi, and reads...
