Today, June 17th, marks the 135th anniversary of the arrival of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. I did a post similar to this one last year on this date (actually, a couple of days late), but this year my point is still valid and so I have updated it to reflect the differences between then and now. The main difference this year is the issue of police brutality, and I have added some pictures to reflect this.
The statue arrived dismantled, in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases, and it would be October of the following year before it was fully re-assembled and dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. The statue was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and came to symbolize freedom and democracy.
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