# List of monuments to African Americans

This list may include memorials but does not include plaques or historical markers.
This is a sortable table. Click on the heading you want it sorted by.
| Name | Honoree | Location | Designer or sculptor | Date | Comments or inscriptions | References |
| Bust of York | York (explorer) | Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon | Todd McGrain | February 2021 | Toppled in July, 2021. Patriot Front is suspected. | |
| Robert Gould Shaw Memorial | African American Civil War Soldiers | Boston Common,Boston, MA | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | 1897 | | |
| Statue of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass Memorial Square, Rochester, NY | Sidney W. Edwards | 1899 | Douglass & family lived in Rochester 25 years, he's buried in Rochester. | |
| Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort | Colored soldiers | Green Hill Cemetery, Frankfort, KY | | 1924 | | |
| Victory Monument | Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard | Douglas, Chicago, IL | Leonard Crunelle, John A. Nyden | 1927 | | |
| All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors | Colored soldiers and sailors | Philadelphia, PA | J. Otto Schweizer | 1934 | | |
| Mothers of Gynecology Monument | Anarcha Westcott, Betsey, Lucy | Montgomery, AL | Michelle Browder | 2021 | The women were patients of J. Marion Sims. |
| John Brown and African-American child | Enslaved African Americans | John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY | Joseph Pollia | 1935 | The adult is John Brown. | |
| Emancipation | Three slaves | Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller | 1913; cast in bronze 1999 | | |
| El Hombre Redimido | | Ponce, Puerto Rico | Victor M. Cott | 1956 | Commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico | |
| Expelled Because of Color | 33 Georgia legislators | Grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, GA | John Thomas Riddle, Jr. | 1978 | Commemorates the Original 33. | |
| Civil Rights Memorial | 41 civil rights leaders | Montgomery, AL | Maya Lin | 1989 | | |
| Amistad Memorial | Sengbe Pieh | New Haven City Hall, New Haven, CT | Ed Hamilton | 1992 | | |
| Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Las Sendas Community, Mesa, AZ | Jane DeDecker | 1995 | | |
| Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Brenau University, Gainesville, GA | Jane DeDecker | 1997 | | |
| Duke Ellington Circle | Duke Ellington | Manhattan, New York City, NY | Robert Graham | 1997 | | |
| Statue of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York City, NY | Gabriel Koren | 1997 | | |
| Harriet Tubman Memorial | Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA | Fern Cunningham | 1999 | | |
| African American History Monument | | South Carolina State House, Columbia, South Carolina | Ed Dwight | 2001 | The history of African Americans in South Carolina from the slave trade to modern times. | |
| Sojourner Truth Memorial | Sojourner Truth | Florence, MA | | 2002 | | |
| African-American Monument | African Americans | Savannah, GA | Dorothy Spradley | 2002 | | |
| Integration | Maxwell Courtney; Doby Flowers; Fred Flowers | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL | W. Stanley Proctor | 2004 | Portrays Maxwell Courtney, the first African-American to enroll and graduate; Doby Flowers, the first black Miss Florida State University; and Fred Flowers, first black varsity athlete. | $^{:14}$ |
| Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Little Rock, AR | Jane DeDecker | 2004 | | |
| Statue of Fred Lee Douglas | Fred Lee Douglas | Frenchtown,Tallahassee, FL, | | 2004 | Douglas was the first black policeman in Tallahassee assigned to a regular beat. | $^{:13}$ |
| Statue of Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman | Ypsilanti, MI | Jane DeDecker | 2005 | | |
| C. K. Steele Statue and Plaza | Reverend C. K. Steele | Tallahassee, FL | David Lowe | 2005 | Tallahassee civil rights leader of the 1950s. | |
| Harriet Tubman Memorial | Harriet Tubman | Manhattan, New York City, NY | Alison Saar | 2007 | | |
| Ray Charles memorial | Ray Charles | Greenville, FL | Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr | 2006 | He grew up in Greenville. | $^{:16}$ |
| 29th Colored Regiment Monument | 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment | New Haven, CT | Ed Hamilton | 2008 | | |
| Statue of Frederick Dogulass | Frederick Douglass | Harlem, New York City, NY | Gabriel Koren | 2009 | | |
| Bust of Sojourner Truth | Sojourner Truth | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Artis Lane | 2009 | | |
| Frederick Douglass Statue | Frederick Douglass | Talbot County Courthouse, Easton, MD | Jay Hall Carpenter | 2011 | Douglass was from Talbot County. | |
| Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Steven Weitzman | 2013 | | |
| Statue of Rosa Parks | Rosa Parks | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | Eugene Daub | 2013 | | |
| Sojourner Truth Memorial | Sojourner Truth | Esopus, NY | Trina Greene | 2013 | Portrays her as a slave child. She was born in Esopus. | |
| Denmark Vesey Monument | Denmark Vesey | Hampton Park, Charleston, SC | | 2014 | Portrayed as a carpenter, holding a Bible | |
| Slavery Memorial | | Brown University, Providence, RI | Martin Puryear | 2014 | | |
| Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD | Andrew Edwards | 2015 | Douglass was from Marylander. | |
| Benjamin Banneker statue | Benjamin Banneker | National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. | | 2016 | Statue stands in front of a plan of the City of Washington, which Banneker did not plan, design or survey (see Mythology of Benjamin Banneker and List of common misconceptions) | |
| The Quest for Parity | Octavius Catto | Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA | Branly Cadet | 2017 | | |
| National Memorial for Peace and Justice | Victims of lynching | Montgomery, AL | Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Hank Willis Thomas, MASS Design Group | 2018 | Six acre site, with 805 hanging steel replicas of coffins. | |
| Memorial to Enslaved Laborers | Enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | | 2020 | | |
| Women's Rights Pioneers Monument | Sojourner Truth | Central Park, New York City, NY | Meredith Bergmann | 2020 | Also Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
| Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune | Mary McLeod Bethune | U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. | | Future | To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. | |
| Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved | African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary | College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA | | May 2022 | | |
| Emancipation and Freedom Monument | Emancipated slaves | Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia | Thomas Jay Warren | 2021 | replaces the Robert E. Lee Monument | |