Statue of liberty black woman

The actual model that posed for the statue was also a black woman. The statue was a gift from France to America to celebrate the role black soldiers played in winning the Civil War. Well, these “facts” are in dispute.

REA get you a book and educate yourself. This is a question that has been asked repeatedly for the last several decades.

Basically, the original “statue of liberty” was not the “statue of liberty” that we know today. Statue of a…”Black Woman”. Please read this and pass this on.

However, there was a difference…the statue in France is BLACK! You learn something new everyday! But, as memory serves, it was because the model was Black.

Easy for me to believe, after all, most of the important history of this country related to African Americans is either hidden or stolen.

However there was a difference, the statue in France is Black. She was refused on the notion that the black statue would be a constant reminder of the liberty that the slaves earne from. Black Twitter, who seemed to know the woman’s identity before it hit mainstream news outlets, rushed to her support. Was the first statue of liberty a black women?

Oprah was the first black woman to ever have her own t. CNN)A new commemorative coin from the U. In a book called The Journey of The Songhai People, according to Dr. Fourth of July was taken into police custody, CNN reports. Last Sunday, Baltimore activists placed a statue stylized as lady liberty of black power, in front of a statue of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson riding horses side by side according to WUSA-TV. Orignally, it had the face of an African American woman.

When it was presented to the U. One cannot carve a statue out of liberty any more than one can take a photograph of freedom or hold a jarful of justice. Liberty is not a thing, it is a. So, Furious wrote a popular article a while back stating that the original statue of liberty presented to the U.

While working as a Park Ranger at the National. You forgot to mention how when this statue was created that it was an original one before it. The chains are to represent freedom and originally there were broken chains in her left hand and at her left foot. But some speculate she was changed because racism was at full scale for another century. THE BLACK STATUE OF LIBERTY?

OLD POST COLUMN SPARKS ‘NET RUMOR ABOUT LADY’S RACE. It was erected atop an American-designed pedestal on a small island in Upper New York. THE ORIGINAL STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS A BLACK WOMAN.

What a good example this mother is - Ladies always keep your handbags attached to your person or chair. She would have stood guard over the Suez Canal in Egypt instead of New York Harbor, were it not for the economic prudence of the. Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44.

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