Forecast Public Art - This spring, "I Am Queen Mary" was installed in Copenhagen. Inspired by 19th-century freedom fighter Mary Thomas, it is Denmark's first public monument to a black woman. The
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I Am Queen Mary'. The 23-foot-tall statue, Denmark's first celebrating a Black woman, unveiled in Copenhagen on March 31st 2018. A tribute to Mary Thomas, who in 1878 led one of the
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New Statue Immortalizes Mary Thomas, Who Led a Revolt Against Danish Colonial Rule | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
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WOMENSART on Twitter: "Denmark's first statue of a black woman, entitled “I am Queen Mary”, celebrates Mary Thomas, a 19th-century rebel who led the largest labour revolt in Danish colonial history, by
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