The Abraham Lincoln Statue, erected in 1879, by Thomas Ball, is viewed in Park Square in Boston, Massachusetts on June 16, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) A statue in Boston depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln has been removed.
The Emancipation Group Memorial was removed after critics saw it as demeaning and racist. Among them was social media influencer Tory Bullock, who started a petition over the summer pushing for its removal.
“It’s an amazing funeral, I’m here to provide a silent eulogy for this piece of artwork that’s been here for 141 years,” Bullock told CBS Boston on Tuesday as the monument was being hauled away.
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Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879.
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A statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln s feet rests on a pedestal, Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Boston. The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman s Memorial, that was erected in Lincoln Park, in Washington, D.C., in 1876. Three years later, the copy was installed in Boston. Calls are mounting for the removal of both statues. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
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