Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Maquette |
Collection |
Raymond Kaskey Collection |
Catalog Number |
2015.15.4.003 |
Description |
Scale maquette of three figures at Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument |
Context |
Kelly Ingram Park, 1992 Three Ministers Kneeling illustrates both the progress and limitations in public memorialization of Alabama's Black freedom struggle. Installed in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park by sculptor Raymond Kaskey in 1992, the limestone monument portrays the city's civil rights movement as a complete victory settled in the past. This narrative of reconciliation celebrates the progress gained during the city's civil rights campaign of 1963 at the expense of acknowledging a prolonged and broad struggle for Black justice. Monuments remain a difficult medium for representing diverse social movements. Though modeled on a photograph of N.H. Smith Jr., A.D. King, and John T. Porter, Three Kneeling Ministers originally did not specify its memorialization to these three men. The monument attempted instead to encompass the contributions of many religious leaders in the movement |
Currently On Display In |
Visible Vault: Open Collections Storage |
Date |
1991 |
Maker |
Raymond Kaskey |
Role Artist |
Sculptor |
Donor |
Raymond Kaskey |
Dimensions |
H-4 W-8 D-4 inches |
Lexicon Category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Search Terms |
civil rights unbuilt monument |