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Frederick Douglass Memorial
Frederick Douglass Memorial
	The memorial in 2010
	Frederick Douglass Memorial Location in Manhattan
Artist	Gabriel Koren (sculpture); Algernon Miller (fountain);
Year	2011
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	Frederick Douglass
Location	New York City, New York, U.S.
	40°48′02″N 73°57′29″W / 40.800640°N 73.958141°W

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The Frederick Douglass Memorial is a memorial commemorating Frederick Douglass, installed at the northwest corner of New York City's Central Park, in the U.S. state of New York. The memorial includes an 8-foot bronze sculpture depicting Douglass by Gabriel Koren and a large circle and fountain designed by Algernon Miller.^[1] 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 Percent for Art program and the Department of Cultural Affairs.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "Central Park: Frederick Douglass Memorial". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved May 23, 2017.

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[NYC-1] "Central Park: Frederick Douglass Memorial". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved May 23, 2017.

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v t e Frederick Douglass
Autobiographies	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
Newspapers	The North Star
Fiction	The Heroic Slave, a heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty (1852)
Speeches	American Anti-Slavery Society 1843 lecture tour "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery?" (1860) "Self-Made Men" (1885)
Life	Seneca Falls Convention Fugitive Slave Convention Equal Rights Party (1872 vice presidential nominee) Douglass Place Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (home and memorial)
Honors	List of things named after Frederick Douglass U.S. Capitol statue Frederick Douglass Memorial Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge Douglass–Anthony Memorial Bridge Frederick Douglass Circle Douglass Park Frederick Douglass Memorial Park University of Maryland statue Rochester statue Denver statue Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum Washington, D.C. neighborhood
Family	Anna Murray Douglass (first wife) Helen Pitts Douglass (second wife) Rosetta Douglass (daughter) Lewis Henry Douglass (son) Charles Remond Douglass (son) Joseph Douglass (grandson) Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (granddaughter)
Related	African American founding fathers of the United States Frederick Douglass (1985 opera) Frederick Douglass (1991 opera) Frederick Douglass and the White Negro (2008 documentary) The Good Lord Bird (2020 miniseries) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Nathan and Mary Johnson home Shields Green

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