A local group plans to bring it back to the city’s Little Italy neighborhood.
In 2020, the crowd knocked down and dumped the original statue, located at President Street and Eastern Avenue, in protest of the Italian explorer’s violent enslavement of native people. The statue came down as cities across the United States experienced a racial reckoning and the Black Lives Matter movement expanded after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Monuments of figures with ties to slavery were taken down in Baltimore and elsewhere.
Columbus Celebrations, a local nonprofit group that Pica is president of, paid several thousand dollars for the expedition. They retrieved 90 percent of the statue and whisked it to Hemsley’s studio, he said. He said the city wanted nothing more to do with the statue, which had become a political hot button. The city’s Department of Recreation and Parks director signed a termination agreement, finalized Aug. 26, 2020, to give the statue back to Italian American Organizations United.
The project cost $80,000 to $90,000 and was paid for in part by private donors and a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, said Bill Martin, treasurer for the Italian organizations Pica heads. Some good did come out of the chaos, said Folayan, noting that her group did not organize the protest that led to the statue’s toppling. The Baltimore City Council voted in October 2020 to rename the city’s Columbus Day holiday as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
While the fates of both statues are undecided, officials are considering renaming the statue’s former location, Columbus Piazza, as Piazza Little Italy and putting a different statue there, Pica said.
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