Migration Memorials - migration

Mantle Rock

makvnna@unc.edu — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:13:31 +0000

Description:

Mantle Rock - 1/2 mile. During winter of 1838-1839, the Cherokees were forced to leave their Smoky Mountain homes for Oklahoma territory. Mantle Rock, a 40-foot sandstone arch, was used for shelter on their "Trail of Tears." Since the icy Ohio River had no ferry traffic, the Indians sought cover beneath the arch. Many died there. Mantle Rock was also campsite for ancient Indians

LocationMem:

Smithland, KY

Institution:

Commonwealth of Kentucky

Official/Unofficial:

Official

Group Acknowledged:

Native Americans

Historical Subject:

Native migration

Physical Aspects:

Black

Place Location:

Themes:

Native Americans

migration

Trail of Tears

Resolute Monument

jonahim@unc.edu — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:37:19 +0000

Description:

The Resolute Moment was erected in 2010 to commemorate the Inuit who were exiled from their land by the federal government and forcibly relocated to the High Arctic in the 1950s. This monument, made of stone, depicts a lone man gazing out to the ocean at the location of the High Arctic where Inuits had arrived by ship.

LocationMem:

Resolute, Nunavut

Institution:

Private - Simeonie Amarualik

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Group Acknowledged:

Inuits

Historical Subject:

Inuit people of Resolute.

Physical Aspects:

Carved stone figure of a man stationed a few meters away from the shoreline of an ocean.

Date of Dedication:

2010

Place Location:

Files:

Themes:

Indigenous

migration

Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex

ameliek@unc.edu — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:49:24 +0000

Description:

The Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, often referred to as Tsitsernakaberd, was constructed to honor the millions of lives lost to the Armenian Genocide (1915-1917). Nearby is a museum, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, established in 1995, which contains artifacts and stories from the Genocide, and attempts to educate people on the horrific events.

Institution:

Armenian Government

Official/Unofficial:

Official

Group Acknowledged:

Victims of the Armenian Genocide

Historical Subject:

Armenian Genocide

Physical Aspects:

The monument consists of a 44-meter stele, in which twelve slabs are set in a circle. This is meant to represent the twelve lost-provinces in Turkey. In the center of the circle is an “eternal flame” that commemorates the 1.5 million people killed during the Genocide. The memorial also contains a 100-meter wall with the names of towns and villages impacted. Most recently, a line of trees has been planted to commemorate the genocide victims.

Date of Dedication:

1967

Place Location:

Files:

Themes:

Genocide

migration

National Famine Memorial

stejohn@unc.edu — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:11:18 +0000

Description:

LocationMem:

Murrisk, Ireland

Institution:

John Behan

Official/Unofficial:

Official

Historical Subject:

The Irish Famine

Date of Dedication:

1997

Place Location:

Themes:

migration

Irish Famine Ship Memorial

stejohn@unc.edu — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:05:53 +0000

Description:

There are many monuments in Ireland in respect of the Great Famine. This one consists of a central piece of limestone. which originated as a memorial to Celia Griffin, a 6 year old girl who died in the city of starvation in 1847. To this has been added two sandstone monuments which are carved in the form of a ship's sail, like those which carried thousands of emigrants from Ireland in and after the famine years. Many died on the journey, hence the ships were often known as coffin ships. The sandstone monuments each contain 50 of the 100 names of ships known to have carried Irish people across the Atlantic Ocean.

LocationMem:

Salt Hill, Galway Ireland

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Historical Subject:

The Irish Famine

Date of Dedication:

July 2012

Place Location:

Themes:

migration

Another Time’s Voice Remembers My Passion’s Humanity

mmaszer@unc.edu — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:28:28 +0000

Description:

This jazzy montage of figures and textile patterning opens with the pairing of a wall-high African mask and the face of a contemporary woman, linking the African past with the present community. On the right, the striding figure of an elderly lady with her shopping bag honors the strength of the black matriarchy.

LocationMem:

Chicago, Illinois

Institution:

Chicago Mural Group

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Group Acknowledged:

African Americans

Physical Aspects:

Montage of figures, textile patterning, wall-high African mask, face of a contemporary woman, striding figure of an elderly lady.

Date of Dedication:

1979

Place Location:

Themes:

migration

the Great Migration

Black history

The Alabama National Memorial for Peace and Justice

taguilar@unc.edu — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:26:56 +0000

LocationMem:

Montgomery, Alabama

Institution:

Equal Justice Initiative

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Group Acknowledged:

African American Slaves

Historical Subject:

As African Americans attempted to find freedom in the North by migrating there from the south, thousands of slaves were captured and lynched. Lynching was a common form of murder by punishment and torture that was carried out by people filled with hate for the community. Justifications by lynchers were often that the slaves were illegally trying to escape their enslavement, making it right to torture and kill them as they fled their oppressive conditions.

Physical Aspects:

The memorial depicts slaves chained together by shackles around their neck and feet. They are all in positions of agony, expressing pain and suffering through their expressions. One of the statues is holding a reaching out to another slave. The monuments are all standing on a foundation of a single white rectangle adjacent to the grass and the concrete walkway.

Date of Dedication:

April 26th, 2019

Place Location:

Themes:

The Irish Memorial Monument

stejohn@unc.edu — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:22:01 +0000

Description:

The bronze monument, which was sculpted by artist Glenna Goodacre, is the centerpiece of a 1.5-acre park designed by award-winning landscape architect Pauline Hurley-Kurtz. Dedicated in 2003, it was built to commemorate the 150th anniversary of An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, and to recognize the contributions of the Irish to the city, state and nation.

LocationMem:

Penn's Landing, Philadelphia

Institution:

Glenna Goodacre

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Group Acknowledged:

Irish citizens who died in the Irish famine.

Date of Dedication:

2003

Place Location:

Themes:

migration

Johann Michael Jahn (Texas #2764)

hcz@unc.edu — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:09:22 +0000

Description:

This marker commemorates the life and accomplishments of Johann Michael Jahn (1816-1883) who came to New Braunfels in 1845 as a colonist. He worked as a master craftsman, was active in civic affairs, and elected as one of the first alderman of the city.

LocationMem:

Texas

Institution:

Texas Historical Commission

Official/Unofficial:

Official

Date of Dedication:

1997

Place Location:

Files:

Themes:

migrants

migration

Vietnamese Boat People Monument

mvn410@unc.edu — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:21:15 +0000

Description:

Cam Ai Tran and Hap Tu Thai and their two children escaped Vietnam by boat in 1979. Thirteen others on the same boat died and were buried at sea. Tran and Thai are now the publishers of the “Saigon Times”, based in Rosemead, California. For ten years they worked tirelessly to build a memorial to the Boat People, including the tens of thousands who died at sea. In the Spring of 2009 the Vietnamese Boat People Monument was dedicated in Westminster Memorial Park’s Asian Garden of Peaceful Eternity.

LocationMem:

Westminster, California

Official/Unofficial:

Unofficial

Historical Subject:

During 1975, as a U.S. Naval Officer stationed in the South China Sea, I witnessed a small part of the human drama of the Vietnamese Boat People. It was not an easy thing to see – an impossible thing to forget. With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese crowded into every type of boat imaginable and fled their homeland. This exodus continued for years. They sailed towards Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. They sailed on overloaded vessels, many boats totally ill-equiped for the open ocean. Most refugees were rescued – initially moved to relocation camps in Asia, and eventually resettled permanently in strange countries of the Western World – the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Israel, and others. For thousands of Vietnamese refugees, however, their journeys ended in death – their bodies scattered on the ocean floor of the vast expanse of the South Pacific.

Physical Aspects:

The monument contains four statues on a slab within a pool, the slab resembling a raft. The figures on the raft are of a man, an older woman, and a younger woman holding a young child.

Date of Dedication:

Spring of 2009

Place Location:

Themes:

migration

Refugee