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At the time, it was the last known Columbus monument which wasn't removed. [175] Christopher Columbus Statue (1893) located in Arrigo Park. Removed on July 24, 2020. Statue of Christopher Columbus (1933) located in Grant Park. Removed on July 24, 2020. [176] Christopher Columbus Statue located at Columbus Plaza in Arrigo Park, Little Italy ...
The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed in Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, in Boston's North End, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. On June 11, 2020, [2] the statue was removed for an undisclosed period after it was decapitated by protestors on the evening of June 9, 2020 during the George Floyd protests. [3]
The pedestal in August 2020 after the statue was removed. The Hartford, Connecticut statue of Christopher Columbus, by the artist Vincenzo Miserendino, [1] was an eight-foot tall bronze sculpture installed on Columbus Green, near Bushnell Park, [2] that was removed in 2020. [3]
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in a St. Louis park for 134 years was removed Tuesday amid a growing national outcry against monuments to the 15th century explorer.
In 2019, the statue was doused in red paint as an act of protest. The restoration cost about $70,000. [6]On June 18, 2020, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) removed the statue following the removal of other controversial statues during the George Floyd protests. [7]
Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas." [64] [65] The monument to Christopher Columbus in New York City's Columbus Circle, whose hands were defaced with red paint on September 12, 2017.
Base after statue removal. A statue of Christopher Columbus was a memorial in Washington Park (now Harriet Tubman Square) in Newark, New Jersey, within the James Street Commons Historic District. It was made in Rome by Giuseppe Ciochetti and presented to the city by Newark's Italians in 1927.