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Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial. Located on the west end of the Mall in Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial features Daniel Chester French's statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln in a building designed by Henry Bacon and modeled after a classical Greek temple. Authorized by Congress in 1911 and built by the Lincoln Memorial Commission, it stresses Lincoln's role as savior of the Union and the importance of sectional reconciliation between North and South. The speakers who dedicated the memorial on 30 May 1922, including President Warren G. Harding, made scant mention of Lincoln's role as the “Great Emancipator” of African American slaves.
In 1939, however, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) helped to reshape Lincoln's memory by turning the memorial into a locus for civil rights activity. That year, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes gave the NAACP permission to sponsor an Easter concert by Marian Anderson, an African American singer, after the Daughters of the American Revolution had denied her the use of Washington's Constitution Hall on account of her race. Widely attended and publicized, Anderson's appearance made the memorial a popular site for future civil rights rallies and protests. In August 1963, the memorial became the focal point of the March on Washington, attended by hundreds of thousands of people demanding passage of what became the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. It served as the backdrop that afternoon for Dr. Martin Luther King's memorable I Have a Dream speech. Bibliography Scott A. Sandage , A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939–1963, Journal of American History 80 (June 1993): 135–67. G. Kurt Piehler |
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Paul S. Boyer. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Companion to United States History. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Paul S. Boyer. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Companion to United States History. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O119-LincolnMemorial.html Paul S. Boyer. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Companion to United States History. 2001. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O119-LincolnMemorial.html |
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Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial monument, 107 acres (45 hectares), in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.; built 1914–17. The building, designed by Henry Bacon and styled after a Greek temple, has 36 Doric columns representing the states of the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. Inside the building is a heroic statue of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French and two murals by Jules Guerin. |
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"Lincoln Memorial." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lincoln Memorial." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LincolnM.html "Lincoln Memorial." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LincolnM.html |
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Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial a monument in Washington DC to the American Republican statesman Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), designed by Henry Bacon (1866–1924) and dedicated in 1922. Built in the form of a Greek temple, the monument houses a large statue of Lincoln.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-LincolnMemorial.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Lincoln Memorial." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-LincolnMemorial.html |
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