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All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors
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LocationLogan Square, SE corner 20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°57′29.9″N 75°10′18.5″W / 39.958306°N 75.171806°W / 39.958306; -75.171806
EstablishedDedicated July 7, 1934
Rededicated November 11, 1994
Governing bodyCity of Philadelphia

All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors is a war memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that honors the state's African American servicemen who fought in American conflicts from the American Revolutionary War to World War I. Commissioned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1927, it was created by sculptor J. Otto Schweizer and dedicated July 7, 1934.[1] In 1994 it was relocated from a remote site in West Fairmount Park to its present prominent site in Logan Square, along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.[2]

  1. ^ "Negro Soldiers Are Honored," The Philadelphia Daily News, July 8, 1934, p. 9.
  2. ^ Peter Landry, "Belated But Monumental Move Sixty Years Later, A Memorial To Black Soldiers Will Go On The Parkway." The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 19, 1994.

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