|
Florida Slavery Memorial
The Florida Slavery Memorial is a planned site to commemorate the struggles and suffering of slaves with a memorial at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee. Support for the planned memorial was approved by Florida's legislators and signed into law by Florida governor Rick Scott in 2018. It was sponsored by representative Kionne McGhee from Miami. Florida is also sending a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune to the U.S. Capitol. State Senator Dennis Baxley, a descendant of a Confederate soldier, had blocked a memorial bill a year earlier but supported the bill that passed in 2018. The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill unanimously. Slaves worked on Florida's 1826 territorial capitol and the 1845 capitol building, as well as many major infrastructure projects in the state. The planned monument would be the first monument at a U.S. state capitol to memorialize slavery. References External links Slavery Memorial {coord missing, Florida Buildings and structures in Tallahas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Capitol
The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, is an architecturally and historically significant building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Capitol is at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida. The Historic Capitol, sometimes called "The Old Capitol," built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built. Having been restored to its 1902-version in 1982, the Historic Capitol is directly behind the new Capitol building. Its restored space includes the Governor's Suite, Supreme Court, House of Representatives and Senate chambers, rotunda, and halls. Its adapted space contains a museum exhibiting the state's political history, the Florida Historic Capitol Museum, which is managed by the Florida Legislature. On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed the Historic Capitol Building (Restoration) on its list of ''Florida Archite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
