- Source: Freedom Suits Memorial
The Freedom Suits Memorial is a 14-foot-tall (4.3 m) bronze sculpture in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Hundreds of people attended the ceremony. It commemorates the freedom suits which were lawsuits filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom.
The memorial was designed by Chicago sculptor Preston Jackson in 2015 and was unveiled in 2022.
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- Dred Scott
- Freedom Suits Memorial
- Freedom suit
- Zoot suit
- Lucy A. Delaney
- St. Louis Gateway Mall
- List of public art in St. Louis
- Polly Berry
- Dred Scott
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Elizabeth Key Grinstead