Harriet Tubman Park - Boston, MA - Civil Rights Memorials on Waymarking.com

In Boston, along Columbus Avenue, is Harriet Tubman Park, featuring Tubman's efforts in the Underground Railroad.

The park is located at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Warren Avenue, on the south side of Columbus Ave.

The park is a triangular lot of land about 50 ft on a side. There is an iron fence around the edge, and several entrances. Inside is a plaza of brick with vegetation on the outside. At the center is a bronze sculpture of people, likely former slaves on the way to freedom. At a corner is another sculpture with several people, with the form of Harriet Tubman stepping out in front of them. In front of this sculpture is a small plaza with bronze square forms in the brick. A brass sign on the fence says the following:

"The design, fabrication and installation of the memorials at Harriet Tubman park were made possible through the efforts of the United South End Settlements with funding support from the New England Foundation for the Arts, George B. Henderson Foundation, the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund, a public charitable trust administered by the Trust Office of the City of Boston. The art piece 'Step on Board' was designed by Artist Fern Cunninham in 1999, and 'Emancipation' was designed by Artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller in 1913. This park is maintained by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department in partnership with the friends of Harriet Tubman Park.


2000"

Also are names of benefactors

The Harriet Tubman sculpture is bronze with a granite backing. Harriet in full form, stepping out from the other forms, which are in half relief against the bronze back. On the back is etched words as well as a route with names of cities along it. The route goes from Maryland through Delaware, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Canada. To the left are four quotes from : Harriet Tubman (2x), Frederick Douglass, and Sarah Bradford.

The other statue has bronze figures facing off in different directions. Etched on the granite base is the following:

S1:
"Emancipation, 1913 In honor of African American
freed persons who by their courage and valor gave
meaning to emancipation
Meta Vaux Warrick Feller, (1877-1968)Sculptor
Courtesy of
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
and the
Museum of Afro-American History"

S2
"Humanity weeping over her suddenly
freed children
who beneath the gnarled fingers
of Fate, step forth into the
world unafraid

Meta Warrick Fuller"

S3
"The Negro has been emancipated
from slavery but not from the curse
of race hatred and prejudice. It was
not Lincoln alone who wrote the
Emancipation but the humane side of
the Nation.

Meta Warrick Fuller"

Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)

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