George Gardner's St. Augustine Report: Artist Brian Owens' Civil Rights Footsoldiers Monument to be Dedicated at Slave Mkt Sq. May 14, 2011 at 4:30 P

City of St. Augustine's Foot Soldiers monument unveiling May 14
Six years of community effort culminate May 14 with the dedication of a St. Augustine Foot Soldiers monument in the city's Plaza de la Constitución.
The unveiling will be at 4:30 p.m. in the southeast corner of the Plaza, adjacent to the Plaza's market building.
More than $70,000 was raised by the community-based non-profit St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Remembrance Project for the monument.
Four bronze figures, an older black man and woman, a white college student, and a black teenage girl, represent "the diversity of foot soldiers who took part in St. Augustine's Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s," Project President Barbara Vickers says. "None should be forgotten."
The sculpture's backdrop is a bas relief depicting marchers in the Plaza, flanked by the market building -scene of demonstrations, and former Woolworth building where sit-ins occurred.