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Texas A&M Statue Will Honor Former Slave, Senator And Higher Education Champion Matthew Gaines

KWBU | By Texas Standard
Published January 25, 2021 at 12:52 PM CST
Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain); Patrick Creighton/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Gaines' statue will be erected in the center of campus, near the new Student Services Building and the Memorial Student Center.

After decades of false starts, the Matthew Gaines Initiative student group raised $350,000 for Gaines’ statue.
Texas News