Civil War Soldiers’ Monument at Greenwood Cemetery by David Jacobs

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A far away shot of the Civil War Soldiers’ Monument (1876) in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, which is one of the first times a Black person is included in a public statue. Photo by David Jacobs