The Frederick Douglass Memorial is a memorial commemorating

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...

, installed at the northwest corner of

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, in the

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of New York. The memorial includes an 8-foot bronze sculpture depicting Douglass by

Gabriel Koren Gabriel Koren is a Hungarian born American sculptor whose body of work focuses on noted and or celebrated African-American public figures. She was born and raised in Budapest. Koren's works include the first public statue of Malcolm X, titled wit ...

and a large circle and fountain designed by Algernon Miller. Additionally, Quennell Rothschild & Partners is credited as the memorial's architecture, and Polich-Tallix served as the foundry. The memorial was dedicated on September 20, 2011, and was funded by the

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program and the,

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