Emancipation Monument

  • Hidden History of the Emancipation Monument

    Learn the Hidden History of the Emancipation Monument from historians, researchers and authors.

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  • From Slavery to Freedom

    From Slavery to Freedom

    Free program via Zoom about Archer Alexander’s journey from Rockbridge County Virginia to Missouri in 1829. Details below…

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  • Stop removing our history

    Stop Congress from removing the Emancipation Monument from our Nation’s Capitol. Add your name to the Petition today. This is the only memorial entirely paid for by thousands of formerly enslaved and U.S. Colored Troops in our Nation’s capitol. https://www.change.org/EmancipationMonumentDC Freedom’s Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Monument in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. has…

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  • An American Hero

    An American Hero

    Archer can still be seen today, rising from his knees, his shackles broken, looking up towards Lincoln. Archer Alexander is no longer just a local boy, as he rises next to Lincoln on the Emancipation Memorial today, in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.. Please sign the Petition to save the monument .

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  • Save the Emancipation Memorial in DC

    It is said that those that do not know their history, are doomed to repeat it. Let us all rise up, by learning the truth of our history. Our ancestors, fought side by side to put an end to slavery. There are those of us that are willing to stand side by side, to once…

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