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    Sarah Winnemucca is a bronze sculpture depicting the Northern Paiute author, activist and educator by Benjamin Victor, installed in the United States Capitol...
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    Sarah (née Winnemucca) Hopkins (c. 1844 – October 17, 1891) was a Northern Paiute writer, activist, lecturer, teacher, and school organizer. Her Northern...
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    "Sarah Winnemucca". Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on December 29, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2020. "John Stark". Architect of...
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    sculpting his fourth statue for the Statuary Hall, of Daisy Bates. He was only 26 years old when his first statue, Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute activist in...
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    bronze statues by Benjamin Victor in the National Statuary Hall Collection: a statue of Sarah Winnemucca donated by Nevada in 2005, and a statue of Norman...
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    and Sarah Winnemucca (Nevada). Nebraska has authorized the addition of a statue of Chief Standing Bear, and Washington has authorized a statue of Billy...
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    Rhode Island Sarah Winnemucca, Nevada John Winthrop, Massachusetts Brigham Young, Utah George Washington Glick, Kansas (removed in favor of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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    Joseph Ward from South Dakota, in marble, by Bruno Beghé in 1963. Sarah Winnemucca from Nevada, in bronze, by Benjamin Victor in 2005. John Winthrop from...
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    Collection. The statue is installed in the United States Capitol's Capitol Visitors Center, in Washington, D.C. It replaces a statue of Julius Sterling...
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    2024. Franklin, Jonathan (March 13, 2023). "A Monument of Harriet Tubman Now Replaces a Statue of Christopher Columbus in Newark". NPR. Archived from the...
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    Emma Lazarus (category Statue of Liberty)
    inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus...
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    Katherine Johnson (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    of William & Mary. In August 2018, West Virginia State University established a STEM scholarship in honor of Johnson and erected a life-size statue of...
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    Sojourner Truth (category Members of the National Abolition Hall of Fame)
    bust of Truth was unveiled in 2009 in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. She is the first African American woman to have a statue in...
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  • The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Michigan in 2011, and replaced one depicting Zachariah Chandler, which was donated in 1913. The statue would...
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    Sacagawea (category Captives of Native Americans)
    Sacagawea as a symbol of women's worth and independence, erecting several statues and plaques in her memory, and doing much to recount her accomplishments...
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    Lucille Ball (category American people of English descent)
    August 1, 2016, it was announced that a new statue of Ball would replace it on August 6. However, the old statue had become a local tourist attraction after...
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    1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary...
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    the USTA unanimously voted to erect a statue honoring Gibson at Flushing Meadows, site of the US Open. The statue, created by sculptor Eric Goulder and...
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    Helen Keller (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    the State of Alabama donated a bronze statue of Keller to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for its 1908 statue of education reformer...
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    means of legislation. In June 2020, following the nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd, Pelosi pushed for the removal of all statues of Confederates...
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    as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Ohio in 2016, and replaced one depicting William Allen,...
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    Frances Xavier Cabrini (category People of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York)
    landmarks of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Mother Cabrini Park in Newark, New Jersey, includes a 1958 statue of the saint on the former site of one...
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    Pat McCarran (category American people of Irish descent)
    individuals; Nevada's are those of McCarran and Sarah Winnemucca. In 2017, Nevada's three Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to Governor...
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    statue of John Campbell Greenway by Gutzon Borglum, one version of which was installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C., as part of the...
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    the first full-length statue of an African American in the Capitol. 2013 in art Civil rights movement in popular culture Statue of Rosa Parks (Eugene, Oregon)...
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    of Winnemucca, Nevada was centered around the Joss House on Baud Street. The Joss House was demolished on March 8, 1955, by order of the Winnemucca City...
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    into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1992. A full-sized bronze statue of Amelia Earhart was placed at the Spirit of Flight Center in Lafayette...
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    in Winnemucca, 1901–1910." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 1998 41(3): 206–209. ISSN 0047-9462 Oral history (1981) describes the Chinatown of Winnemucca...
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    statue of Barbara Jordan was unveiled at the University of Texas at Austin, where Jordan taught at the time of her death. The Barbara Jordan statue campaign...
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    the Livingston statue, Palmer moved to Paris to work on the statue. This was a departure from the usual tendency of American artists of the time to place...
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