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Martin Luther King Jr

List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

October 11, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Top Ten Subjects of Monuments in the United StatesWho are the 50 individuals most frequently represented by a public monument in the US? What percentage of those 50 are white and male? How many are women? And what are the dynamics that helped shape who is — and who is not — on that list?

Answers to those questions are among the findings of the National Monument Audit, a first-of-its-kind report issued by Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit art and history studio. [Read more…] about List of America’s Public Monuments Reveals One-Sided History Obsessions

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Abe Lincoln, Abolition, American Revolution, Civil War, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr, Military History, Monuments, Religious History, sculpture, womens history

Martin Luther King In The Catskills

November 15, 2020 by John Conway 1 Comment

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1960In October of 1960, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech entitled “The Future of Integration” at the annual convention of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in the Catskills at the Laurels Country Club in Sackett Lake, Sullivan County, NY.

Less than two weeks after that October 8th appearance, he was sitting in jail for attempting to integrate the lunch counter at Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, Georgia. [Read more…] about Martin Luther King In The Catskills

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Black History, Martin Luther King Jr, Political History

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