Monuments and Memorials

Baron Johann DeKalb

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Artist: Ephraim Keyser (1850-1937)
Title: Baron Johann DeKalb (1721-1780)
Date: 1886
Medium: Bronze
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-0761

Baron DeKalb was a German soldier who fought for the colonies in the American Revolution. The statue was commissioned by the Maryland House of Delegates in 1817 in honor of DeKalb who was fatally wounded at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina in 1780.

Louis Goldstein

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Artist: Jay Hall Carpenter
Title: Louis Goldstein (1913-1998)
Date: 2000
Medium: Bronze
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-3077
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Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley

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Artist: Ernest Keyser (1875-1959)
Title: Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1909)
Date: 1904
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Overall height, 79"
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-0759

Admiral Schley was a hero of the Spanish American War. The General Assembly appropriated funds for this bust and pedestal in honor of Admiral Schley in 1902 and it was installed in the State House in 1904. This bust was cleaned and conserved in 2008.

Matthew Henson

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Artist: Unknown
Title: Memorial Plaque to Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
Date: 1961
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 28 x 36"
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-2917
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Memorial Plaque for Tree Dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Artist: Sharon Fletcher
Title: Memorial Plaque for Tree Dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: 2007
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 19 x 27"
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-3331

Thurgood Marshall Memorial

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Artist: Antonio Tobias Mendez (b.1963)
Title: Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) Memorial
Date: 1996
Medium: Bronze, limestone, and slate
Accession number: MSA SC 1545-2944

Thurgood Marshall was one of this century's foremost leaders in the struggle for equal rights under the law. A native of Baltimore, Marshall graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He earned his law degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. where he first met the great civil rights lawyer Charles Houston. After earning his law degree, Marshall returned to Baltimore and began his long association with the NAACP. In 1967, Marshall became the first African American to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following Marshall's death in 1993, the state of Maryland decided to honor the great civil rights leader and jurist with a memorial at the State House in Annapolis. On May 17, 1994, exactly 40 years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka decision, the governor of Maryland signed an Executive Order establishing the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Statue Commission. After a nationwide competition, the Commission awarded the design of the memorial to Maryland artist Toby Mendez.

Mr. Mendez's winning design includes an 8' statue of Thurgood Marshall as a young lawyer. Behind him are pillars with the inscription "Equal Justice Under Law" and facing him are two benches. On one of the benches is the figure of Donald Gaines Murray whose entrance into the Law School of the University of Maryland marked Thurgood Marshall's first important victory in his struggle for school integration. On the other bench are the figures of two children representing Marshall's most important achievement, Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka et. al.. Within the circle of the plaza is a chronology of the important events in Thurgood Marshall's long and distinguished career. The Thurgood Marshall Memorial was dedicated at a ceremony on October 22, 1996, attended by Governor Parris N. Glendening and Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, as well as Justice Marshall's widow, Cecilia, and other members of his family.
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