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After nearly four years of research and collaboration, the Carnegie Center for Art and History is pleased to unveil Remembered: the Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols, the latest addition to the award-winning permanent exhibit Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad.
The exhibit guides visitors through Lucy’s life, from 1838 — 1915. Period documents and letters detail her life as a slave in Tennessee, a nurse during the Civil War, and her post-war life in freedom. It highlights her six year battle for a nurse’s pension, which was ultimately awarded through a Special Act of Congress. Visitors can explore maps that pinpoint the paths she took and examine actual artifacts from the Civil War, including an Enfield rifle and an amputation saw of the same type used by the surgeons Lucy served with in the 23rd Indiana Volunteers."
This is another example of the devotion that African Americans had in history who were treated terribly but many of whom in return did not hold a grudge of hate which was not their Christian values at failing to serve and be there for the well being of their fellow human beings and regardless of who they were. Hopefully more facts like this in terms of the honorable contributions of African Americans in history will continue to be taken out of obscurity but to be a known and celebrated part of U.S. history. Continue to rest in peace nurse Lucy.
http://www.carnegiecenter.org/exhibitions/remembered-life-lucy-higgs-nichols/
The exhibit guides visitors through Lucy’s life, from 1838 — 1915. Period documents and letters detail her life as a slave in Tennessee, a nurse during the Civil War, and her post-war life in freedom. It highlights her six year battle for a nurse’s pension, which was ultimately awarded through a Special Act of Congress. Visitors can explore maps that pinpoint the paths she took and examine actual artifacts from the Civil War, including an Enfield rifle and an amputation saw of the same type used by the surgeons Lucy served with in the 23rd Indiana Volunteers."
This is another example of the devotion that African Americans had in history who were treated terribly but many of whom in return did not hold a grudge of hate which was not their Christian values at failing to serve and be there for the well being of their fellow human beings and regardless of who they were. Hopefully more facts like this in terms of the honorable contributions of African Americans in history will continue to be taken out of obscurity but to be a known and celebrated part of U.S. history. Continue to rest in peace nurse Lucy.
http://www.carnegiecenter.org/exhibitions/remembered-life-lucy-higgs-nichols/