The All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors

The All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors was to be a tribute to African American war heroes, but was originally relegated to a remote location in Fairmount Park, where it remained virtually unseen for many years. Commissioned in 1927 by Pennsylvania’s African-Americ ... an legislator, Samuel Beecher Hart and created by Swiss sculptor J. Otto Schweizer, The Philadelphia Arts Jury and the Committee to Restore and Relocate lobbied until it was finally relocated to its current location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 1994.