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‘A Sign Of The Times’: Black Pastor Laments ‘BLM’ Vandalism Of Escaped Slave Statue

Jon Brown
‘A Sign Of The Times’: Black Pastor Laments ‘BLM’ Vandalism Of Escaped Slave Statue
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A small-town Indiana church is reeling after their statue of Lucy Higgs Nichols, an escaped slave and Civil War nurse, was defaced with “BLM” graffiti last week.

Rev. LeRoy Marshall, who is pastor of the historic, majority-black Second Baptist Church in downtown New Albany, Indiana, told The Daily Wire that he nevertheless hopes good will come out of the situation, which he said has shocked his small congregation and the wider community.

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