Ed Dwight

Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. (bɛ dɔɣi o la September 9, 1933) ka o nyɛ ŋun mɛri binyɛra African-American ŋun mɛri binyɛra mini sasabira. Ŋuna n-nyɛ tuuli African American ŋun kpe Air Force baŋsim lɛbu tuma ni ka NASA piigi o "astronauts". 

 Maŋmaŋa lahabali 
 Piligu biɛhigu 
Dwight nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Anashaara goli September 9, 1933,  Kansas City, Kansas, ka o laamba nyɛ Georgia Baker Dwight (1909–2006) mini Edward Joseph Dwight Sr. (1905–1975).

 Pina ni nintiɣili 
 1986 – Honorary doctorate from Arizona State University
 2020 – Air Force Commander's Award for Public Service
 2020 – Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artist Award
 2021 – Asteroid 92579 Dwight
 2022 – University of Denver CAHSS Lifetime Achievement Award


 Sculptures 
Zaŋ kana yuuni 2024 bahigu, Dwight daa mɛla yɛla teebu binyɛra kɔbigu ni pihitanaayi ni anfooninima gari tuhi kɔbishii, ka di shɛŋa nyɛ peentibu ni bin'mɛra. O tuma shɛŋa m-bɔŋɔ:

 Name Picture Location Unveiled Notes African American History Monument  South Carolina State House grounds – Columbia, South Carolina  Alex Haley / Kunta Kinte Memorial The City Dock – Annapolis, Maryland  Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial Constitution Gardens – Washington, D.C.  Captain Walter Dyett Statue Chicago, Illinois Concerto Folly Theater – Kansas City, Missouri Dr. Benjamin Mays Morehouse College Commons – Atlanta, Georgia Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Anne Arundel Community College – Annapolis, Maryland  Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. Houston, Texas  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial City Park – Denver, Colorado  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King Allentown, Pennsylvania  Gateway to Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad Philip A. Hart Plaza – Detroit, Michigan  George Washington Williams bust Ohio Statehouse – Columbus, Ohio Hank Aaron Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium – Atlanta, Georgia  Inauguration of History and Hope – Inaugural Sculpture Scene of President Barack Obama Touring exhibit  Jack Trice Memorial Iowa State University – Ames, Iowa Jazz: An American Art Form St. Louis Arch Museum – St. Louis, Missouri John Hope Franklin Tower of Reconciliation Tulsa, Oklahoma Mayor Harold Washington Harold Washington Cultural Center – Chicago, Illinois  Memorial to Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement Grand Rapids, Michigan  Mother of Africa Chapel Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception – Washington, D.C.  Mr. Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass National Historic Site – Washington, D.C.  Dwight's first commission Quincy Jones Sculpture Park Chicago, Illinois Soldiers Memorial Lincoln University – Jefferson City, Missouri  Texas African American History Memorial  Texas State Capitol – Austin, Texas November 19, 2016 Erected by the Texas African American History Memorial Foundation. Tower of Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad 110px Civic Esplanade – Windsor, Ontario  Underground Railroad Memorial Kellogg Foundation headquarters – Battle Creek, Michigan  United House of Prayer for All People Lincoln Cemetery – Suitland, Maryland  William E. Smith, Director of Airports Denver, ColoradoDenmark Vesey Monument Charleston, South Carolina2014
Yaha, Dwight daa yɛliya, Anashaara goli October 2024 ni tumdimi jendiri Normandy beaches yɛla teebu din yɛn niŋ nintiɣili ni World War II.

 Lihi pahi 
 Tuskegee Airmen

 Kundivihira 

 External links 



 Barbaro, Michael (host), The Almost Moon Man, (July 21, 2019) The Daily. The New York Times podcast featuring journalist Emily Ludolph speaking with Ed Dwight.

 DiMeo, Nate, The Ballad of Captain Dwight  (August 28, 2015) Episode 75 of The Memory Palace, podcast centered on Dwight's astronaut training. Includes interview extracts.
  (December 19, 2019) part of The New York Times' Almost Famous Op-Doc series.

Category:Living people
Category:1933 births
Category:20th-century African-American artists
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:21st-century African-American people
Category:African-American Catholics
Category:African-American sculptors
Category:African-American United States Air Force personnel
Category:American male sculptors
Category:Military personnel from Kansas
Category:People from Kansas City, Kansas
Category:Sculptors from Kansas
Category:United States Air Force officers
Category:United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War
Category:United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War
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