Gaining Approval

Governor John Stuchell Fisher signed the bill authorizing the All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors in 1927. He also set up a commission of nine men to serve on the Colored Soldiers Statue Commission to choose a design for the memorial and follow the project to completion.

Sources: Ernst Jockers, J. Otto Schweizer: The Man and His Work. Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1953, 62. and Ilene D. Lieberman, "Race and Remembrance: Philadelphia's "All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors" and the Politics of Place." American Art Journal 29, no. 1/2: 18-51, 21.