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This guy is a descendant of the liberated slaves who paid for the emancipation monument-indeed he says his great-great grandfather is the man sculpted with Lincoln. This really would be a teaching moment, if he was not being shouted down.

This is a tour guide who is angry that the protestors don’t know the history of the monument

Marcia Cole defending the Emancipation Monument

And this is Marcia Cole in TV earlier in the week

This is Frederick Douglass’s speech, given at the raising of the freedmen’s monument in 1876 https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/">https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/d...

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln - Teaching American History

Delivered at the Unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. Friends and Fellow-citizens: I warmly congratulate you upon the highly interesting object which has caused you...

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/

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Cedric Turner, ‘see my Facebook page’ he says as he sets out some of Washington’s black history

And this is my article on the monuments debate in Britain https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/17/a-healthy-society-does-not-destroy-its-monuments/">https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/1...

A healthy society does not destroy its monuments

There are good reasons to be disturbed by the infantile attacks on historic symbols.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/17/a-healthy-society-does-not-destroy-its-monuments/

Join me in supporting this important cause at iPetitions. Keep the The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue http://ipt.io/RIETU ">https://ipt.io/RIETU&quo... via @ipetitions

Petition Keep the The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

Petition to Save the The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1876, the monument depicts Abraham Lincoln in his role of the

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This is Cedric Turner’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cedric.turner.50">https://www.facebook.com/cedric.tu...

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