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This is a brief selection of a first-person interpretation of Lucy Higgs Nichols by Judith Owens-Lalude.
Lucy Higgs Nichols is brought to life in a new permanent exhibit at the Carnegie Center for Art & History, which details her escape from slavery in 1862, and her service as a nurse with the 23rd Indiana Regiment during the Civil War, to her life in freedom in New Albany, Indiana as an admired citizen whose wartime service earned her a nurse's pension by a Special Act of Congress in 1898. The exhibit is an extension of the Carnegie Center's award-winning permanent exhibit, "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad."
This is a brief selection of a first-person interpretation of Lucy Higgs Nichols by Judith Owens-Lalude.
Lucy Higgs Nichols is brought to life in a new permanent exhibit at the Carnegie Center for Art & History, which details her escape from slavery in 1862, and her service as a nurse with the 23rd Indiana Regiment during the Civil War, to her life in freedom in New Albany, Indiana as an admired citizen whose wartime service earned her a nurse's pension by a Special Act of Congress in 1898. The exhibit is an extension of the Carnegie Center's award-winning permanent exhibit, "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad."
