The Museum of the American Revolution will display Thomas Jefferson’s chair and Martin Luther King’s prison bench
The exhibit, starting later this year, represents the first time the two iconic objects have been displayed side-by-side.
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On This Day | 85 years since cornerstone ceremony for Jefferson Memorial
On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone, which included copies of: The National Park Service (NPS) described Thomas ... The memorial was dedicated on Jefferson’s 200th ...
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Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist
According to an official brochure, "Inscriptions at the memorial were selected by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission and were taken from a wide variety of his writings on freedom ...
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Washington, DC famous landmarks secrets and fun facts
After he was elected in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt pushed to get a memorial for Jefferson. Congress created the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. Architect John Russell Pope designed the ...