July 22, 1892:  “The New Colossus” Poet Emma Lazarus was Born On this day in 1892, Emma Lazarus was born in New York City.  Her famous sonnet, “The New Colossus,” written in 1883, is engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.  The most recognizable lines of the poem, “‘Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…’”, represent the spirit of American immigration – for which the Statue of Liberty is a shining pillar, lighting the way toward better times ahead. On the Statue of Liberty’s 125th anniversary last year, MetroFocus and the Museum of Jewish Heritage examined Emma Lazarus’s sonnet in order to explore the statue’s meaning in the present day. Photo: Library of Congress, c1905.
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July 22, 1892:  “The New Colossus” Poet Emma Lazarus was Born

On this day in 1892, Emma Lazarus was born in New York City.  Her famous sonnet, “The New Colossus,” written in 1883, is engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.  The most recognizable lines of the poem, “‘Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…’”, represent the spirit of American immigration – for which the Statue of Liberty is a shining pillar, lighting the way toward better times ahead.

On the Statue of Liberty’s 125th anniversary last year, MetroFocus and the Museum of Jewish Heritage examined Emma Lazarus’s sonnet in order to explore the statue’s meaning in the present day.


Photo: Library of Congress, c1905.

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    And that statue? Everyone should see it—up close. Lady Liberty is beautiful, truly.
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    Love this! #History and the Statue of Liberty
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    too. Not many years after that it feels…
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    straight. She wrote it nine years before she
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    It’s wrong. She was born in 1849.
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