The black lawn jockey is typically thought of as a piece of racist memorabilia but a viral facebook post in january 2016 sought to reverse that image by claiming that these miniature statues were.
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Jocko graves was a young african american boy whose service during the american revolutionary war earned him the commemorative statue the lawn jockey.
He purchased the statue a 5 foot tall likeness of an african american boy dating from the mid 1800s in a greenwich village market in 1984 while writing escape from slavery for national.
We used to kick them over and try to knock the heads off run over them said.
There is no clear information of who first designed one.
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No one really knows the origin story of the statue of the lawn jockey.
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It begins on christmas eve december of 1776 with general george washington s crossing the delaware river to battle the british army.