Find Any Photo
Controversial Uncle Jack Statue, LSU Rural Life Museum
Download full sizeView at the archive

Controversial Uncle Jack Statue, LSU Rural Life Museum

The controversial "Uncle Jack" statue, once standing in Nachitoches, Louisiana, and moved here to the LSU (Louisiana State University) Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge in 1974. The first monument of an African American to be erected in Louisiana, the 1926 statue depicts a Black man deferentially tipping his hat. References to Black males as "Uncle" have been offensive to many Black citizens since the publication of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly" in 1852. The statue's plaque, since removed, once read, "In Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana."

Date
2021-02-14
Photographer / author
Carol M. Highsmith
Collection
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
photograph
Original size
1,024 × 768 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: Carol M. Highsmith Archive: dedicated to the public domain by the photographer.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Highsmith; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Controversial Uncle Jack Statue, LSU Rural Life Museum" (2021-02-14). Carol M. Highsmith. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Controversial_Uncle_Jack_Statue,_LSU_Rural_Life_Museum.jpg

What public domain means here

Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 134666.

More like this