Our nation’s capital will soon add another statue of Abraham Lincoln to its commemorative landscape. It will be located in the historic Shaw Neighborhood along the U Street corridor. This historic Black neighborhood, named in honor of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, has its roots in the Civil War, when thousands of enslaved men, women, and children flocked t…
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