Lenwood sloan biography of abraham

In 2020, as communities around the nation took down old monuments symbolizing the legacies of American slavery, Harrisburg residents set up a monument to African American history and the power of the vote.

On August 26, 2020, A Gathering at the Crossroads commemorated the anniversaries of the fifteenth and nineteenth amendments through the installation of a monument to Harrisburg’s Black history.

One hundred and fifty years after the right to universal male suffrage was granted to the people of the United States, and one hundred years after the right for women’s suffrage, 2020 marked the intersection of the legacies of past achievements, and the inconsistencies and obstacles of the present.

Beginning in the Spring of 2020, protests against police brutality toward Black Americans swept the nation, calling attention to continued injustices in American society.

At the height of this racial reckoning, a bronze monument was placed at the Irvis Equality Circle in front of Harrisburg’