Memorials
The Monument to the Great Northern Migration commemorates the exodus of African-Americans to Chicago to liberate themselves from the oppression of the Jim Crow South. Situated in Bronzeville, Chicago's counterpart of Harlem, this statue symbolizes the reconstitution of the black identity.
This statue was erected to celebrate the immigration of Italians to America.
This monument was designed to commemorate the bravery of the Mapuche people, the indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile. Specifically, the restructuring of their societies to become a military force to fight off foreign invaders.
Born in Haiti in 1784, Elizabeth Clovis Lange immigrated to Baltimore where she taught children of French-speaking black immigrants. In 1829, she formed the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s first black Catholic order, and guided it through the challenges of discrimination, poverty, and anti-Catholic violence. Before her death in 1882, Mother Lange helped the Oblate Sisters open schools around the nation. The school she founded in West Baltimore still operates as Saint Frances Academy... Read More
Low cost housing in Mount Pleasant in the decades following World War II made it an ideal place for immigrants to the area. Refugees fleeing World War II and the Cold War in Eastern Europe were the first group to arrive. A small Czech community lived along Park Road until the 1990s. In the 1980s refugees from wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua found a home in Mount Pleasant. Good wages -- often ten times as high as in their native countries -- continue to lure immigrants from Central... Read More
In 1852 Irish immigrants Michael Murray and Jeremiah Fallon purchased 1000 acres of land from Don Jose Maria Amador, and on this site Murray erected his modest home in 1857. Murray sold his house to John Green, proprietor of the Green Store, whose 11-room "addition" became known as "Green's Mansion." Both homes stood until 1967, when the Murray house was destroyed by fire and the deteriorated Green Mansion was demolished.
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Nonprofit museum in NYC that exhibits Chinese American history, with rotating exhibitions and a focus on a holistic, diverse view of Chinese Americans, including art, history, culture, oral/photo histories, and more. Recently moved to new, larger space in 2009.
A bronze sculpture with four warriors and four animal figures representing the thousands of men and women including Aboriginals and indigenous people that defended Canada for its freedom. It also symbolizes the importance of the indigenous people by honoring their faith using the natural world (four animal figures).