While Confederate veterans were given seats of honor as a sign of national unity at the Lincoln Memorial’s dedication on Memorial Day in 1922, gun-toting soldiers ushered Black spectators far from the monument and behind a rope barrier to segregate them from white onlookers. “The conditions which confronted us as a race were most shameful,” wrote W.E.B. The dedication ceremony was racially segregated.
A corrected typo can be seen on its walls.Ī worker who possibly grabbed the wrong stencil accidentally chiseled “EUTURE” instead of “FUTURE” when etching the words of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address into the memorial’s north wall. Although the bottom line of the “E” was filled in to correct the flub before the memorial’s dedication, remnants of the misspelling can still be spotted by a discerning eye.
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