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FREEDOM SUITS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Committed to sharing the stories of the St. Louis freedom suits and the long Black freedom struggle in the United States.

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Welcome to our new website, STLFreedomSuits.org. We hope that you will explore our most recent posts and find the topics compelling and worth sharing.

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Educational Resources

The Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation’s website aims to be a resource for all ages and backgrounds to learn about the St. Louis freedom suits as well as the broader history of slavery and freedom in the United States.Continue reading “Educational Resources”

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18Mar 202618 Mar 2026
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Bronze plaque honors countless enslaved black Americans.

BRONZE PLAQUE HONORS COUNTLESS ENSLAVED BLACK AMERICANS INHUMANELY TRAFFICKED BY SLAVE TRADER BERNARD LYNCH

It is almost certain that few people who have walked this earth have been more callous, soulless, or greedy, than…

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Young Dr. Carter G. Woodson portrait.

HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY DR. CARTER G. WOODSON

HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY AND CREATOR OF BLACK HISTORY WEEK IN 1926!! Freedom Plaza,…

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FSMF 2024 Annual Report Cover Image

ANOTHER FIRST IN REMEMBERING AND HONORING THE ST. LOUIS FREEDOM SUITS PLAINTIFFS – OUR ANNUAL REPORT

A note from the Foundation’s President: We are so excited to share with you our Inaugural Annual Report 2024, which displays…

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Learnings

Elements of The Memorial

20 Oct 202330 Oct 2025
INTRODUCTION The Freedom Suits Memorial has been the dream of Founder, the Honorable David C. Mason since before 2010.  He campaigned with tireless devotion to make the dream a reality.  In 2014…
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Ceremony for New Cemetery Monument for Dred Scott

6 Oct 202328 Dec 2023
This past Saturday, just two weeks after the 165th anniversary of the death of Dred Scott, his great-great granddaughter, Lynne M. Jackson, led a ceremony dedicating a new, fitting, nine-foot-tall,…
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Our Inaugural Year

21 Jun 202328 Jan 2024
All the members of the Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation Board of Directors are very excited about our launching a website to begin what we realize will be an ambitious educational…
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Juneteenth Perspectives

12 Jun 202328 Jan 2024
The Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation celebrates Juneteenth by examining its history and its potential impact on current generations of all ethnicities. Compelling reading: "The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth," from the…
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Advance the Mission

10 Jun 202328 Jan 2024
Please join me, board members, and our other donors in launching the newly-formed Foundation’s educational efforts. Our goal is to help enhance the dream sculpture project of Memorial founder, the…
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Branding the Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation

10 Jun 202328 Dec 2023
When Lynne M. Jackson, Founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation reached out to let me know she had recommended me to Judge Mason and board members to provide a…

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Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation
100 N. 4th Street
Suite 900
St. Louis, Missouri 63102
United States
stlfreedomsuits@gmail.com
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  • Freedom Statutes and Laws
  • Judges
  • Lawyers
  • Our Generous Donors
  • Recommended Movies and VODs
  • Recommended Reading
  • About Our Foundation
  • Meet Our Board
  • The Freedom Suits
    • Educational Resources
    • Rescuing History: Rediscovering the St. Louis Freedom Suits
  • Freedom Suit Plaintiffs: Profiles in Courage
  • The Memorial
    • Elements of Freedom Plaza
  • BRONZE PLAQUE HONORS COUNTLESS ENSLAVED BLACK AMERICANS INHUMANELY TRAFFICKED BY SLAVE TRADER BERNARD LYNCH
  • HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY DR. CARTER G. WOODSON
  • ANOTHER FIRST IN REMEMBERING AND HONORING THE ST. LOUIS FREEDOM SUITS PLAINTIFFS – OUR ANNUAL REPORT
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  • Freedom Plaza Added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

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