Considering How We Memorialize Important Historical Figures

By Kyle Kellams

Published August 25, 2022 at 1:16 PM CDT

Monday night at 6:00 there will be a public forum dedicated to the legacy of Nelson Hackett and how the city of Fayetteville can honor his memory. He was an enslaved man who fled the city in the mid-19th century. An ensuing legal battle made intertnational news.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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