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Series Title: American Monuments

Tuskeegee Confederate Monument, Alabama

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
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Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 2021.106.10
Edition
edition 2/15
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

When Tuskegee Confederate Monument was erected in 1906, the county’s population was 82% Black; it is now 97% Black.

Description

When Graves photographed the monument in Tuskegee, the statue of a Confederate soldier had already been removed from view through the use of a blue tarp installed by the city government. The monument had been painted with Civil Rights protest graffiti in 1966, 2015, and 2017. Its owners, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, had stopped having it cleaned. When more graffiti appeared in June 2020, the city enshrouded it and began looking for a way to relocate it.

Tuskeegee Confederate Monument, Alabama

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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