Monuments
Statue of King George III
William Walcutt’s painting depicts the destruction of the monument by New Yorkers and George Washington’s troops following a public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776.
William Walcutt, Pulling Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green, July 9, 1776. 1857, oil on canvas,51-5/8 x 77-5/8 inches, Lafayette College Art Collection.
Statue of the Shah of Iran
Removal of a statue of the Shah in Tehran University during the revolution in 1978. Unknown Photographer.
Statue of Lenin
A photo dated November 13, 1991, shows workers removing the head of a statue representing late Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin during its demolition on the Leninplatz in Berlin. The 19-meter-tall (62-foot-tall) statue of the Russian revolutionary was sawed from its pedestal in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin in 1991, one year after German reunification, and buried near the Mueggelsee lake in nearby Koepenick. BERND SETTNIK/DPA/AFP via Getty Images
Statue of Christopher Columbus
Venezuelan demonstrators place a rope to take down a Christopher Columbus statue in Caracas, October 12, 2004. Jorge Silva/Reuters
Statue of a Confederate Soldier
On August 14, 2017, days after clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesters toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood in front of the old Durham County Courthouse in North Carolina for nearly a century. Kate Medley/Reuters.
Statue of Winston Churchill
Protesters gather in Parliament Square Garden around the statue of Winston Churchill which has graffiti with the words "was a racist" outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 07, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
Statue of Andrew Jackson
Protesters tried to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, Washington, on June 28, 2020. The square has been the site of protests in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Statue of Sir John A Macdonald
Activists in Montreal pulled down the statue of Sir John A Macdonald, prime minister of Canada between 1860 and 1890, who was responsible for policies that killed many indigenous people in the late 19th Century.
Statue of Egerton Ryerson
A man stands on the defaced statue of Egerton Ryerson during protest at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, June 2021. Ryerson was a prominent contributor to the design of Canada's residential indigenous school system. Chris Helgren/REUTERS
Statue of Queen Victoria
Toppled during the Canadian Day protest for the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools, the head of the Queen Victoria statue lies in the Assiniboine River, Manitoba, July 2021. Tyson Koschik/CBC