A new monument in Franklin, Tennessee, honors the approximately 180,000 Black people who joined the Union Army. It stands in front of a courthouse where numerous Black people enlisted in the Union Army and across the street from a Confederate monument.
When numerous cities across America fought to remove Confederate monuments, a city in Tennessee chose to refocus attention on the contributions of Black people in the Civil War.
After years of planning, the city of Franklin, Tennessee, unveiled a statue of a United States Colored Troops soldier on Saturday. The monument honors the approximately 180,000 Black people who joined the Union Army. "What does this statue mean? This statue means hope, it means courage, it means possibility, it means dignity, it means valor," the Rev.
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