A father figure in sports, unknown to many, gets a statue in D.C.
. Hanlon said Henderson joins those “pillars” and together they make up a “wonderful array of dynamic characters who were pioneers.”
“We thought we would do one person of color as a pioneer per year out of my studio,” Hanlon said. “It’s turned into five. Equally important is I thought I would do one female athlete a year, because the whole landscape has been void of female athletes. Last year, we did four. I think next year will be even better.”When we pass by statues something unique happens. We are forced to pause, if only for a moment, and think.
“There were a lot of voices — a lot of female voices, a lot of Latino, Asian and African American voices — that have been part of the creation of America that we don’t know about, because there weren’t these huge monuments enshrined to them,” Rodney Trapp, vice president of advancement for UDC, said. “And so, their history and their legacy and their accomplishments have been forgotten.”
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