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The Lake Cumberland Slaves Memorial honors the enslaved people buried in unmarked graves in the Lake Cumberland region. The memorial features a twenty-foot tall, stainless-steel obelisk with a trapezoidal base. The obelisk has four notches on either…

The design of this forty-foot-long gathering space connects the African American Water Trail, the natural spaces of Beaubien Woods on the Far South Side of Chicago, and the Little Calumet River. The space marks the beginning of the Trail, which…

Preston Jackson‘s monumental bronze and stainless steel Knockin’ on Freedom’s Door is located on the site of the former Pettengill House in Peoria, an important station on the Underground Railroad. The work features multiple bronze sculptural groups…

The monument consists of five bronze sculptures. The subjects are a family of freedom seekers including a father, mother and baby; Lewiston's Underground Railroad Station Master, Josiah Tryon; and the fictional heroine, Laura Eastman, from the…