"Racist Anthem" graffiti on Key Monument

ID: 1704 ~ Source: 91ÊÓƵ ~ Creator: Eli Pousson ~ Date: 2017 September 13
This file appears in: Francis Scott Key Monument

The graffiti references Key's role as a slaveholder and his depiction of the formerly enslaved black soldiers fighting for the British in one of the lesser-known stanzas of the National Anthem.

This file appears in: Francis Scott Key Monument

By Johns Hopkins
The Key Monument on Eutaw Place is a grand reminder of how Baltimoreans have kept the memory of the Battle of Baltimore and the War of 1812 alive over two hundred years. Francis Scott Key was a…