WBAL Radio 1090 AM - The story behind 'The New Colossus' poem on the Statue of Liberty and how it became a symbol of immigration (NEW YORK) -- "Give me your tired, your poor, ...

Jim Acosta quoted the most famous couplet from Emma Lazarus's 1883 poem The New Colossus etched on the Statue of Liberty in his argument with Stephen Miller.

I visited the statue the day after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. On my visit, I saw the plaque inscribed with the text of Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus”: ...

The Woman Who Saved the Statue of Liberty Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” to be inscribed on a plaque in the monument’s pedestal ...

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York by ship on this day in history, June 17, 1885. Construction would take some time, as the pedestal was still being built.

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - The story behind 'The New Colossus' poem on the Statue of Liberty and how it became a symbol of immigration (NEW YORK) -- "Give me your tired, your poor, ...