CLIMATE PROTESTOR CHARGED FOR DEFACING AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

02/11/2024

Protester charged for defacing African American Civil War memorial at US National Gallery of Art Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news Protester charged for defacing African American Civil War memorial at US National Gallery of Art A climate activist with the group Declare Emergency has been taken into custody over a paint-smearing incident at the museum last year Torey Akers 9 February 2024 Share Declare Emergency affiliate Jackson Green during a protest at the National Gallery of Art on 14 November 2023 Courtesy Declare Emergency Jackson Green, an activist from Utah, has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial to Black Civil War soldier at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC last autumn. According to a recently unsealed indictment , Green, a member of the environmental activism group Declare Emergency , walked into the NGA carrying red paint on 14 November 2023. He used the paint to write the words “Honor Them” on the wall next to Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial (1900), a monument in patinated plaster to one of the first all-Black regiments enlisted to fight in the US Civil War.