@PredsNHL Thank you Nashville Preds for including Alan LeQuire's 42-ft tall Athena to help represent the WOMEN OF SMASHVILLE. Great job Jackie Fisher and Courtney Mitchell for the exciting graphics. #monumentalwomen
Alan LeQuire, #vanderbilt BA’78, celebrates 35 years of Athena Parthenos, Arts Remix ##https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/11/04/alan-lequire-ba78-celebrates-35-years-of-athena-parthenos-arts-remix/
@VUmedicine Dr. Mildred Stahlman is currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon with a heroic scale sculpture by Alan LeQuire. Stahlman is one of 14 women who inspired LeQuire's "Monumental Figures" exhibition, on view throughout the entire museum.
@NMAAHC FLHamer is currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as part of Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures" exhibition, which promotes monumentality for ALL.
@CityofMcCombMS The celebration continues at the Nashville Parthenon with Alan LeQuire's heroic scale sculpture inspired by FLHamer on display in front of the iconic building. The exhibit, "Monumental Figures" promotes monumentality for ALL.
@ninaturner And "No one is free, until everyone is free." FLHamer is also currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as part of Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures" exhibition, which promotes monumentality for ALL>
@FLHAmerica Great work! FLH is also currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as part of Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures" exhibition, which promotes monumentality for ALL>
@womenshistory FLHamer is also currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as part of Sculptor Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures." The heroic scale sculpture sets the tone for the exhibition, which promotes monumentality for ALL.
@KeishaForGA@KeishaBottoms FLHamer is also currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as part of Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures." On view now through Sept 21st, 2025.
@AfricanArchives FLHamer is currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as one of Sculptor Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures." A heroic scale sculpture inspired by Hamer rests in front of the iconic building setting the overall tone for the exhibit, which promotes monumentality for ALL.
@BlkHistStudies FLHamer is currently being honored at the Nashville Parthenon as one of Sculptor Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures". A heroic scale sculpture inspired by Hamer is on view outside the iconic building, setting the overall tone of the exhibit, which promotes monumentality for all.
@JMitchellNews Fannie Lou Hamer is also currently being celebrated in Nashville. Sculptor Alan LeQuire's summer exhibition at the Parthenon not only includes Hamer as one of his "Monumental Figures", but placed front and center, she sets the tone.
#OnThisDay in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer drew national attention when she testified before the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, challenging Mississippi’s all-white delegation. She detailed violence against Black Americans in Mississippi, including her own beating in the Winona jail.
“All of this is on account of we want to register, to become first-class citizens,” she said. “And if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
Before she could finish, President Lyndon Johnson’s office got the networks to cut away from her testimony for an impromptu press conference at the White House. But later that night, Hamer’s testimony ran on all the networks.
Asked why she kept pushing for the civil rights of Black Americans, she replied, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party failed to unseat the all-white delegation, but four years later, Hamer returned in triumph, receiving a standing ovation as the first Black delegate from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
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@SifanHassan Sifan, congratulations on your success! Did you know your story is also being recognized in Nashville as part of Alan LeQuire's "Monumental Figures" exhibition? Heroic scale sculptures were created to honor women that inspire the renowned sculptor. That includes you!