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Christopher Columbus Statue (1892) located at South Main & Stockton Streets (St. Philip & St James School) Ridgefield. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1975) located at Englehart Terrace (Edgewater Avenue & Shaler Boulevard) Scotch Plains. Christopher Columbus Monument (1998) located at 430 Park Ave. (Municipal Building) Secaucus
Two statues of Christopher Columbus, one in Richmond, Va., and the other in Boston, were destroyed by protestors overnight. In Richmond, numerous videos of the incident show demonstrators pulling ...
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.
Erected on 12 October 1792, the obelisk is the oldest monument to Christopher Columbus in the United States. [1] On the monument the inscription read “Sacred to the Memory of Chris. Columbus / Octob. XII MDCCVIIIC.” [2] [3] until the plaque with this message was destroyed [4] in 2017.
The monument’s destruction comes amid a wave of movements to tear down Confederate monuments across the country. Oldest Christopher Columbus monument in the US vandalized in Baltimore Skip to ...
As the scope of the protests broadened to include other forms of systemic racism, many statues of other controversial figures such as Christopher Columbus, [3] [4] Junípero Serra, Juan de Oñate and Kit Carson were torn down or removed. Monuments to many other local figures connected with racism were also targeted by protestors.
The Christopher Columbus Monument was the newest of Baltimore's three monuments dedicated to the explorer Christopher Columbus.Located in Columbus Piazza, in front of Scarlett Place condominiums, the sculpture was designed by Mauro Bigarani and was commissioned by donations from the Italian American Organization United of Maryland and the Italian American community of Baltimore. [2]
On Columbus Day 1982, the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park held a Catholic mass in front of the statue and laid a wreath on its pedestal. [9] In 1999, the director of the Massachusetts Historical Society published an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling for the statue to be removed, noting that Boston has no historical connection to ...