New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide - Paperback
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New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide
New York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures.
One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appearance of a Black person in a city monument came in the Civil War Soldiers' Monument in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in 1876, but this was a nameless symbolic figure. It wasn't until 1945 that...
David Felsen teaches American history to eleventh graders at Avenues: The World School in New York City. He has a master's degree in American history from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and a bachelor's degree in history from Haverford College. Before becoming a history teacher, David produced television documentaries for HBO, PBS and History, among others. He lives in Brooklyn...
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