Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min read

Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial in Boston NHP gets new scrutiny in Black Lives Matter debate

BOSTON -- The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside on their way to battle.

For L’Merchie Frazier, the towering bronze relief in downtown Boston captures the stirring call to arms answered by Black soldiers who served in the state’s famed Civil War fighting unit, which was popularized in the 1989 Oscar-winning movie “Glory.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/black-soldiers-monument-faces-scrutiny-amid-racial-reckoning-72007458

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