#national monument

[thomaswaynewolf]

#hole-in-the-rock-road #I’ll be back soon! #adventure #travel #my photo #desert #southwest #mountains #utah #photography #aesthetic #landscape #scenery #Colorado plateau #grand staircase #Escalante #National monument

[cpleblow]

mesa verde cliff palace

©Cpleblow Photography (2022)

#travel #mesa verde #cliff dwellings #national monument #Colorado #history #indigenous

[rabbitcruiser]

The Arches National Park was originally named a national monument on April 12, 1929,

#Delicate Arch #North Window Arch #Arches National Park #national monument #12 April 1929 #anniversary #US history #landmark #tourist attraction #USA #desert #geology #original photography #summer 2022 #vacation #travel #Western USA #Utah #Grand County #Double Arch #Balanced Rock #Fiery Furnace #Petrified Dunes Viewpoint #red rock #rock formation #flora #nature #grass #bush

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: Teddy Roosevelt establishes the devil's tower as the country's first national monument, thus preserving it for your future extraterrestrial overlords

#on this day #on this date #teddy roosevelt #devil's tower #national monument #alien invasion #close encounters of the third kind

[lockvogel]

Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico

#original photography #landscape photography #nature #Rio Grande Gorge #rio grande river #Rio Grande Rift #Geology #Rio Grande del Norte National Monument #National Monument #Taos #New Mexico #photographers on tumblr #road trip #roadtrip #vacation #vacation 2023 #mine

[reasonsforhope]

"When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.

The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.

“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.

“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.

With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”

“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said...

On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”

“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement...

Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement...

Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried...

The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955...

Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley State College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Emmett. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, spearheaded fundraising for a statue of Emmett Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.

On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.

“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP."

-via AP, July 25, 2023

#black lives matter #civil rights #civil rights movement #emmett till #lynching #illinois #chicago #mississippi #united states #us politics #us history #american history #black history #african america history #joe biden #democrats #hakeem jeffries #national monument #national parks #national parks service #racism #cw murder #anti blackness #jim crow #cw lynching #cw torture #cw mutilation #hope

[saywhat-politics]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday.

Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity because the White House had not formally announced the president’s plans.

Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett Till’s birth in 1941.

The monument will protect places that are central to the story of Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers and his mother’s activism. Till’s mother’s insistence on an open casket to show the world how her son had been brutalized and Jet’s magazine’s decision to publish photos of his mutilated body helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.

#president joe biden #emmett till #national monument

[toyastales]

Statue of Liberty

#monument #statue of liberty #united states #new york #ellis island #manhattan #landmark #national monument #iconic #toya's tales #toyastales #toyas tales #art #photograph #photography #photo #travel #december #winter #night view #night vibes #nightlife #nice view #views #cityscape #city life #new york city #city #city vibes #city view

[nocternalrandomness]

A vintage 1946 Piper J-3 Cub passes near Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming

#Aviation #Flying #Airplane #Piper #Cub #Vintage aircraft #Devils Tower #National monument

[herbalnature]

Bathed in the soft glow of twilight, Devil's Tower stands majestic against a pastel sky. Delicate wildflowers whisper secrets of the untamed wilderness at its base—a serene close to the day's wanderlust.

#Devil's Tower #Twilight #Pastel Sky #Wildflowers #Wilderness #Serene #Wanderlust #Nature #Landscape Photography #National Monument #Scenic Views #Travel #Outdoor Adventure #Majestic Landscapes #Dusk

[hit-with-rock]

Looking over Monument Canyon as rain moves in (Colorado National Monument)

#kat speaks #photography #Colorado #national monument #nature #geology

[thomaswaynewolf]

#Abo #Salinas mission Pueblos #National monument #adventure #travel #my photo #desert #southwest #mountains #Manzano #photography #aesthetic #New Mexico #Spanish #puebloans #archaeology #history

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Wordplay Wednesday: Conglomerate

What is a conglomerate? It is a type of sedimentary rock that is characterized by it's rounded gravel, pebble, or cobble-sized grains cemented together by silica, calcite, or iron oxide.

There are many ways in which a conglomerate can be formed. Turbidites are deep marine conglomerates created by turbidity currents.

Many are fluvial in nature and occur in rivers with a high flow rate (immature river systems) such as the Buckhorn Conglomerate of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, USA.

Alluvial fans along mountain fronts tend to make the thickest conglomerates. These are often called fanglomerates.

Debris flows also deposit conglomerates such as the Clarno Formation in John Day National Monument which was deposited by a lahar or volcanic mudslide.

Glaciers create tillites, a very poorly sorted type of conglomerate (no discernable pattern to size or shape of grains).

#geology #fun facts #rock formations #stratigraphy #conglomerate #John Day Fossil Beds #national monument #cedar mountain formation #lahar #volcano #river channel

[wandering-jana]

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, about an hour from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Explore this unique park:

#Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument #desert #landscape #travel #landscape photography #nature #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #photography #original photography #lensblr #hoodoo #new mexico #hiking #national monument #wanderingjana

[saskiasabri]

MAT POSTAL ! references: pose - Tugu Negara background - KLCC (twin towers) character crossover: Shark from KL Gangster (and that’s me on the left, as Daud’s boss hehe)

#dudeverse #fandude #postal #postal dude #mat postal #mat daud #malay dude #postal poster #champ #kiki #self insert #shark #kl gangster #klcc #malaysia #tugu negara #national monument #my art

[lockvogel]

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico

#original photography on tumblr #landscape photography #Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument #New Mexico #geology #nature #mine #Las Cruces #road trip #roadtrip #vacation #2023 #vacation 2023 #Southwest #national monument #organ mountains desert peaks #organ mountains #photographers on tumblr