ARCHER ALEXANDER

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When he died in 1880, Archer Alexander was buried at St. Peter’s U.C.C. Cemetery (2101 Lucas and Hunt Road) in St. Louis, Missouri in an unmarked grave among hundreds of others in a Common Lot Section. In 2024, Archer Alexander’s burial location was added to the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, after St. Peter’s U.C.C. Cemetery donated a location for a memorial to this national hero.

Since then, the talented sculptor Abraham Mohler has been chosen to create this memorial, that is way past due. After many discussions, the Archer Alexander Memorial will depict this man who not only resisted enslavement but was a leader among his people who followed him. Future generations will come to know the story of this real hero. His life is truly worthy, and we are asking today, for your help in seeing this memorial become a reality.

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Archer Alexander Memorial

Added December 20, 2025: I am hoping you have seen the Saturday, December 20, 2025 column in the Washington Post by Philip Kennicott, illustrated by David Mahoney of “HOW TO FIX, REMIX OR ERASE AMERICAS’S MOST OFFENSIVE MONUMENTS” . The first of three monuments featured is the Emancipation memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.
“In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the Emancipation Group or Freedman’s Memorial in what is now Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., depicts the 16th president standing above a nearly naked kneeling man, just liberated from his shackles. The speech was given on the April 14 anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, and the crowd remembered the president as the Great Emancipator, as a martyr, as the second father of the nation.” Read more at this link https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/interactive/2025/monuments-edited/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f010
In his column Kennicott introduces the new Archer Alexander Memorial in St. Louis (in Normandy at 2101 Lucas and Hunt) at the St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery that sculptor Abraham Mohler, has designed in partnership with the St. Louis Chamber of Arts and the friends and family of Archer Alexander. “Last year, on April 14, yet another memorial idea was introduced, to honor Alexander individually at the graveyard near St. Louis where he is buried. The designer, Abraham Mohler, would depict Alexander as a vibrant young man, free and emerging triumphantly from the shadows of history.”