Which American botanist and inventor, born into slavery in Missouri, was sculpted into a monument by Tina Allen?
Tina Allen Tina Allen (December 9, 1949 – September 9, 2008) was an American sculptor known for her monuments to prominent African Americans, including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and George Washington Carver.
Thomas Newton Allen Thomas Newton Allen (born 1839) was a lawyer in Lexington, Kentucky. He moved to Olympia, Washington c1889, where he was a clerk and then a lawyer. He was friend to the state governor John H. McGraw. Allen is remembered today for writing a book, "Chronicles of Oldfields" in 1909, which is found on lists of books for those studying slavery in the United States.