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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LINCPK_200504_007.JPG: Playground Closed As a public health precaution, all National Capital Parks-East playgrounds are temporarily closed for the safety of staff and visitors. Updates will be posted to the park website: www.nps.gov/nace
2. LINCPK_200504_028.JPG: I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing
3. LINCPK_200504_032.JPG: confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you
4. LINCPK_200504_039.JPG: a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity
5. LINCPK_200504_052.JPG: I leave you also a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow man.
6. LINCPK_200504_055.JPG: I leave you finally a responsibility to our young people. Mary McLeod Bethune
7. LINCPK_200504_061.JPG: Someone's empassioned plea for information about a dog that bit him, trying to head off getting rabies shots. The note is dated February 21 and the photo was taken on May 4 so I'm thinking he didn't get an answer in time.
8. LINCPK_200504_078.JPG: Freedom's Memorial In grateful memory of Abraham Lincoln this monument was erected by the Western Sanitary Commission of Saint Louis MO: with funds contributed solely by emancipated citizens of the United States declared free by his proclamation January 1st AD 1863. The first contribution of five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott, a freed woman of Virginia being her first earnings in freedom and consecrated by her suggestion and request on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death to build a monument to his memory.
9. LINCPK_200504_094.JPG: And upon this Act sincerely received by an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity I invoke the considerable judgement of mankind and the gracious favor of almighty god . A. Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Jany 1, 1863 Western Sanitary Commission James E. Yeatman, President C.S. Creeley, Treas. Ceo. Partridge, Dr. J.B. Johnson, Wm C. Eliot
10. LINCPK_200504_105.JPG: Ferd. Miller, jun. fudit Munchen, 1875
11. LINCPK_200504_120.JPG: Free Social Distance Concert Every Saturday!
12. LINCPK_200711_016.JPG: It was paid for by former enslaved people -- but did they have any say in the design? We can honor emancipation without deifying Lincoln, who only declared the rights that all were already entitled to.
13. LINCPK_200711_019.JPG: We are one! We believe it's time for humanity to come together as one family, to create a world where everyone can thrive. ... A service project of the Capital Hill Baha'i Jr. Youth Group and parents.
14. LINCPK_200711_028.JPG: Respect Frederick Douglass and the former slaves who paid for it.
15. LINCPK_200711_031.JPG: This statue represents what America was founded on. But we can change who we become.
16. LINCPK_200711_034.JPG: Blacks freed from slavery. That was the intent. Don't re-interpret to modern era.
17. LINCPK_200711_036.JPG: I have lived in the neighborhood for 2 years and the first time I saw the statue I had a visceral reaction. Recognizing the history, this should be moved to a museum. Let us have a monument that recognizes better feelings [???]
18. LINCPK_200711_041.JPG: This ... at Black ... is irredeemable -- it should go But let's also reimagine a democracy w/o policing
19. LINCPK_200711_043.JPG: Keep it & woving [???] about real issues like poverty & bad schools. A ??? guarantees income is something REAL.
20. LINCPK_200711_045.JPG: This statue is an embarrasment [sic] to Lincoln's memory, to our black brothers and sisters and to our whole society. I am ashamed I did not pay enough attention earlier. It should go!
21. LINCPK_200711_048.JPG: We should keep the statue in a manner that doesn't celebrate the message. Put it in a museum to teach others about the history of America.
22. LINCPK_200711_051.JPG: This has to stop now
23. LINCPK_200711_055.JPG: "[ And an antiracist America is sure to come. No power lasts forever. ] There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is they they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing, intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. [ There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.]" -- Ibram X. Kendi ["How to Be an Antiracist"]
24. LINCPK_200711_059.JPG: There is no room in my heart for HATE!
25. LINCPK_200711_066.JPG: I have lived in DC my entire LIFE and NEVER have I looked at this STATUE and felt uplifted by its INTENED [sic] positive message, because this statue lacks CLARITY. Therefore this statue should be REMOVED
26. LINCPK_200711_076.JPG: Father Brother Boyfriend Uncle Son Friend Graduate Breadwinner Employee Homeowner Lover Neighbor Co-Worker 1099411 Felon Criminal Offender
27. LINCPK_200711_079.JPG: This monument should be moved to a museum OR Another statue dealing with emancipation, the African American experience and/or Obama should be erected in Lincoln Park. A resident of Capitol Hill July, ??? 2020
28. LINCPK_200711_082.JPG: I think we should tear it down because of racism (George Floyd's Death), People want Trump out of office, and Black People hate slavery. It's time to stand up for JUSTICE! 7/9/20 Saying this statue should be torn down because of racism does not address the issues. Let's keep history and erect a statue next to this one showing the progress we have made, one with the slave standing proudly.
29. LINCPK_200711_085.JPG: I believe that we shouldn't tear down the statue because freed slaves raised $20,000 just to get it made. So tearing it down would be dishonoring their hard work. -- Sam, age 13 7/9/20
30. LINCPK_200711_088.JPG: First, what do you see when you look at this statue? ...
31. LINCPK_200711_092.JPG: I agree with Fredrick [sic] Douglas's [sic] idea to create more monuments in Lincoln Park, telling the story from multiple angles. As he said, we need monuments depicting African American people "erect on his feet like a man." Freedman's Memorial depicts what we were told growing up in history classes. We need to retell that history in a way that is [sic] represents the strength and resiliency of the African American experience. The statue shows the freed slave in a subservient position and I don't like it. The statue was funded by freed slaves and it would be good to honor that, but with the amendments of new artworks celebrating African Americans. With that being said, I'm a white guy and I don't deserve to make the decision.
32. LINCPK_200711_097.JPG: From my perspective, I would like to keep the statue as hystory [sic] but with explaination [sic] better, because as I see the statue just put the black people still in slave position.
33. LINCPK_200711_109.JPG: This statue does NOT show equallity [sic] It must hurt black kids to see this statue. It's not okay. We need a statue that shows EQUALLITY [sic] and Justice
34. LINCPK_200711_113.JPG: There is room in this park to erect another statue showing oneness and equality.
35. LINCPK_200711_114.JPG: All kids and humans deserve the right to be equelle [sic] and I think that all humans are butifull [sic]. Just the way you ??? one can change altho [sic] they look like evry [sic] person and newborn person to be equal and I know that just because some people ??? and that is not fair. BLM
36. LINCPK_200711_121.JPG: Nice statue! Thank you Park Police for keeping it safe
37. LINCPK_200711_125.JPG: We are on We can unite together to make change
38. LINCPK_200711_168.JPG: THIS AREA IS CLOSED Updates will be posted on the park website. www.nps.gov/cahi
39. LINCPK_200711_170.JPG: Record of Determination for a temporary closure to areas within Lincoln Park to protect park statuary and resources
40. LINCPK_200711_175.JPG: Melted wax from candles that had been put up outside Mary McLeod Bethune's statue
41. LINCPK_200711_178.JPG: Why is Black Lives Matter important to you?
42. LINCPK_200711_180.JPG: Because in 2020, Black people can't even sleep safely. This has to end!
43. LINCPK_200718_001.JPG: COVID-19 Safety Although National Mall and Memorial Parks is [sic] not closed, we encourage all visitors, particularly the most vulnerable, including the elderly and people with underlying conditions, to make smart decisions and to follow CDC guidance to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. These measures include: * Practice social distancing; * Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds; * Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze; * Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth; * Most importantly, please stay home if you feel sick. [Note that it doesn't mention wearing a mask. That hadn't become a recommendation yet.]
44. LINCPK_200718_041.JPG: "What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant [sic -- should be crouching] on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man." -- Frederick Douglass, on the Emancipation Memorial The fact that America + Americans hold on so dearly to racist symbols let's [sic] me know that this country will never fully dismantle racist systems of oppression. Racist is a part of this country's ethos & very much embedded in its mythology. -- A very tired Black Woman
45. LINCPK_200718_044.JPG: Nice statue! Thank you Park Police for keeping it safe
46. LINCPK_200718_047.JPG: A Suggestion. To the Editor of the National Republican: Sir: Admirable as is the monument by Mr Ball in Lincoln park [sic], it does not, as it seems to me, tell the whole truth, and perhaps no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth of any subject which it might be designed to illustrate. The mere act of breaking the negro's chains was the act of Abraham Lincoln and is beautifully expressed in this monument. But the act by which the negro was made a citizen of the United States and invested with the elective franchise was pre-eminently the act of President U.S. Grant and is nowhere seen in the Lincoln monument. The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not crouching on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man. There is room in Lincoln park [sic] for another monument, and I throw out this suggestion to the end that it may be taken up and acted upon. -- Frederick Douglass
47. LINCPK_200718_052.JPG: This monument was paid for by formerly enslaved people and their act of raising money as freed people is significant. But the time has come to AMEND this monument. Wouldn't it be great to see other monuments here that are by amazing artists like: * Kehinde Wiley (kehindewiley.com -- created a new sculpture for Richmond "Rumors of War") * Titus Kaphar (kapharstudio.com -- watch his TED talk "Can Art Amend History?" It's time to list to Frederick Douglass
48. LINCPK_200718_054.JPG: There is room in this park to erect another statue showing oneness and equality.
49. LINCPK_200718_063.JPG: I agree with Fredrick [sic] Douglas's [sic] idea to create more monuments in Lincoln Park, telling the story from multiple angles. As he said, we need monuments depicting African American people "erect on his feet like a man." Freedman's Memorial depicts what we were told growing up in history classes. We need to retell that history in a way that is [sic] represents the strength and resiliency of the African American experience. The statue shows the freed slave in a subservient position and I don't like it. The statue was funded by freed slaves and it would be good to honor that, but with the amendments of new artworks celebrating African Americans. With that being said, I'm a white guy and I don't deserve to make the decision.
50. LINCPK_200718_066.JPG: I think we should tear it down because of racism (George Floyd's Death), People want Trump out of office, and Black People hate slavery. It's time to stand up for JUSTICE! 7/9/20 Saying this statue should be torn down because of racism does not address the issues. Let's keep history and erect a statue next to this one showing the progress we have made, one with the slave standing proudly.
51. LINCPK_200718_069.JPG: Father Brother Boyfriend Uncle Son Friend Graduate Breadwinner Employee Homeowner Lover Neighbor Co-Worker 1099411 Felon Criminal Offender
52. LINCPK_200718_072.JPG: I think the statue is ... + someone up keep it signed Ma...
Wikipedia Description: Lincoln Park (Washington, D.C.)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lincoln Park is the largest urban park located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was known historically as Lincoln Square. From 1862 to 1865, it was the site of the largest hospital in Washington, DC: Lincoln Hospital.

Location

Situated one mile directly east of the United States Capitol, Lincoln Park is maintained by the National Park Service. The park is bounded by 11th Street NE and SE on the west, 13th Street NE and SE on the east, East Capitol Street NE on the North, and East Capitol Street SE on the south. It is four blocks northeast of Eastern Market, Washington, D.C.

The eastern end of the park includes two separate, enclosed play areas for young children. The grassy perimeter and central turf area are popular with neighborhood dogs and their owners.

History

Pierre Charles L'Enfant included the park in his original 1791 plan for the District of Columbia, intending it for public use (see: L'Enfant Plan). Though it was originally planned as the point from which all distances in North America would be measured, it was not ultimately utilized for this purpose. Instead, the park was used as a dumping ground.

During the Civil War, it became the site where Lincoln Hospital was built to take care of the wounded Union Army soldiers. While there were many others around the city, it was the largest in the area built by the Army. It included 20 pavilions arranged in a V formation. 25 tent wards provided beds for 2,575 wounded. Covered pathways connected the kitchen and dining rooms.

The other buildings on site were:

* the headquarters (marked by the flag)
* the officers quarters
* the quarters for the Sisters providing the nursing care
* the barracks
* a guard house
* separate quarters for contraband
* service facilities: a water tank, laundry, barber shop, carpenter shop, stables and a morgue ("Dead House").

Like many of the other hospitals in the area, Lincoln Hospital was visited by family members as well as well wishers. One such visitor was Vinnie Ream, a talented mezzo-soprano (who later gained fame as Lincoln's sculptor). She performed at the hospital in April 1864.

It was also visited by Walt Whitman, who was visiting injured soldiers in the local hospitals. He mentions it in his writings:

Aug., Sep., and Oct., '63. ... Then there is Carver hospital, larger still, a wall'd and military city regularly laid out, and guarded by squads of sentries. Again, off east, Lincoln hospital, a still larger one; and half a mile further Emory hospital.
— Walt Whiteman, "Hospitals Ensemble", Complete Prose Works (1892)

2,012 beds were occupied as of December 17, 1864.

As with most hospitals in the area, with the end of the Civil War in 1865, it was taken down that year. In 1867, Congress authorized the grounds to be called Lincoln Square as a memorial to the former president; it was the first public site to bear his name.

Statues

The park features two important sculptures:

* Thomas Ball's 1876 Freedman's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Monument), one of the first memorials in Washington honoring Abraham Lincoln. It was dedicated on April 14, 1876, with an oration by Frederick Douglass.
* Robert Berks's statue of Mary McLeod Bethune. It was unveiled on the anniversary of her 99th birthday, July 10, 1974, before a crowd of over 18,000 people.

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Emancipation Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group, and sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent so-named memorial was dedicated in 1922, is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1876, the monument depicts Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation freeing a male African American slave modeled on Archer Alexander. The ex-slave is depicted on one knee, with one fist clenched, shirtless and broken shackles at the president's feet.

The Emancipation Memorial statue was paid entirely by the wages of freed slaves.

The statue originally faced west towards the U.S. Capitol until it was rotated east in 1974 in order to face the newly erected Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial.

The statue is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., of the National Register of Historic Places.

Funding

The funding drive for the monument began, according to much-publicized newspaper accounts from the era, with $5 given by former slave Charlotte Scott of Virginia, then residing with the family of her former master in Marietta, Ohio, for the purpose of creating a memorial honoring Lincoln. The Western Sanitary Commission, a St. Louis-based volunteer war-relief agency, joined the effort and raised some $20,000 before announcing a new $50,000 goal.

According to the National Park Service, the monument was paid for solely by former slaves:

* The campaign for the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln, as it was to be known, was not the only effort of the time to build a monument to Lincoln; however, as the only one soliciting contributions exclusively from those who had most directly benefited from Lincoln's act of emancipation it had a special appeal ... The funds were collected solely from freed slaves (primarily from African American Union veterans) ...

The turbulent politics of the reconstruction era affected the fundraising campaign on many levels. The Colored People's Educational Monument Association headed by Henry Highland Garnet wanted the monument to serve a didactic purpose as a school where freedmen could elevate themselves through learning. Frederick Douglass disagreed and thought the goal of education was incommensurate with that of remembering Lincoln.

Design and construction

Harriet Hosmer proposed a grander monument than that suggested by Thomas Ball. Her design, which was ultimately deemed too expensive, posed Lincoln atop a tall central pillar flanked by smaller pillars topped with black Civil War soldiers and other figures.

When Ball's design was finally chosen, the commission insisted on certain changes. Instead of wearing a liberty cap, the slave in the revised monument is depicted bare-headed with tightly curled hair. The face was re-sculpted to look like Archer Alexander, an ex-slave whose life story was popularized by a biography written by William Greenleaf Eliot.

* Compared to the original design, in which Lincoln's hand seems to awaken the slave to his new freedom and to the realization that his shackles are gone, the current memorial is more of an amalgamation of approaches. It is no longer allegorical but realistic. In fact, Lincoln never met Archer Alexander, so it is historically inaccurate. While the original design poses a question — will this slave become a man? — the revision erases that query and instead implies a relationship between two men who never actually knew each other.

In the final design, as in Ball's original design, Lincoln holds a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand. The document rests on a plinth bearing patriotic symbols including George Washington's profile, the fasces of the U.S. republic, and a shield emblazoned with the stars and stripes. The plinth replaces the pile of books in Ball's original design. Behind the two figures is a whipping post draped with cloth. A vine grows around the pillory and around the ring where the chain was secured.

The monument was cast in Munich in 1875 and shipped to Washington the following year. Congress accepted the statue as a gift from the "colored citizens of the United States" and appropriated $3,000 for a pedestal upon which it would rest. The statue was erected in Lincoln Park, where it still stands.

A plaque on the monument names it as "Freedom's Memorial in grateful memory of Abraham Lincoln" and reads:

* This monument was erected by the Western Sanitary Commission of Saint Louis Mo: With funds contributed solely by emancipated citizens of the United States declared free by his proclamation January 1 A.D. 1863. The first contribution of five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott. A freedwoman of Virginia being her first earnings in freedom and consecrated by her suggestion and request on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death to build a monument to his memory

Dedication

Frederick Douglass spoke as the keynote speaker at the dedication service on April 14, 1876, with President Ulysses S. Grant in attendance.

Other versions

This early small demonstration version by Ball was purchased by Edward Francis Searles; it is now located in the atrium of the Town Hall of Methuen, Massachusetts.

In 1879, Moses Kimball, for whom Ball had once worked at the Boston Museum, donated a copy of the statue to Boston. It is sited in Park Square.

Architect Edward Francis Searles purchased an early small demonstration version from Ball and brought it to Methuen, Massachusetts, where it rests in the Town Hall atrium.

The Chazen Museum of Art, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was gifted a version of the statue in white marble by Dr. Warren E. Gilson in 1976.

Criticism

The monument has been criticized for its paternalistic character and for not doing justice to the role that African Americans played in their own liberation. While the funds for the monument were raised from former slaves, an all-white committee oversaw the design. An alternative design depicting Lincoln with uniformed black Union soldiers was rejected as too expensive. According to historian Kirk Savage, a witness to the memorial's dedication recorded Frederick Douglass as saying that the statue "showed the Negro on his knees when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom." According to information from American University:

* If there is one slavery monument whose origins are highly political, the Freedman's memorial is it. The development process for this memorial started immediately after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and ended, appropriately enough, near the end of Reconstruction in 1876. In many ways, it exemplified and reflected the hopes, dreams, striving, and ultimate failures of reconstruction.

On June 23, 2020, DC delegate Eleanor Norton announced plans to introduce legislation to remove the memorial. That same day, protesters on site vowed to dismantle the statue on Thursday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m. local time. Subsequently, a barrier fence was installed around the memorial to protect it from vandalism.

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Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial
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Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial is a bronze statue honoring educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune, by Robert Berks.

The monument is the first statue erected on public land in Washington, D.C. to honor an African American and a woman. The statue features an elderly Mrs. Bethune handing a copy of her legacy to two young black children. Mrs. Bethune is supporting herself by a cane given to her by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The statue was unveiled on the anniversary of her 99th birthday, July 10, 1974, before a crowd of over 18,000 people. The funds for the monument were raised by the National Council of Negro Women, the organization Mrs. Bethune founded in 1935.

It is located in Lincoln Park, at East Capitol Street and 12th Street N.E. Washington, D.C.

The inscription reads:

(Front bottom of Bethune's dress:)
(copyright symbol)
73
Berks (Front of base:)
MARY McLEOD BETHUNE
1875 1955
(Front of base, in script:)
Let her works praise her
(Bronze plaque, front of base:)
ERECTED
JULY 10, 1974
BY THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN, INC.
DOROTHY I. HEIGHT
PRESIDENT
(Bronze plaque running around sides of base:)
I LEAVE YOU LOVE. I LEAVE YOU HOPE. I LEAVE YOU THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE IN ONE ANOTHER. I LEAVE YOU A THIRST FOR EDUCATION. I LEAVE YOU A RESPECT FOR THE USE OF POWER. I LEAVE YOU FAITH. I LEAVE YOU RACIAL DIGNITY. I LEAVE YOU A DESIRE TO LIVE HARMONIOUSLY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEN. I LEAVE YOU FINALLY, A RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
Mary McLeod Bethune (in script)
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