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Buffalo Soldiers taught horsemanship at segregated West Point. Soon a statue will honor their service.


Buffalo Soldiers taught horsemanship at segregated West Point. Soon a statue will honor their service.
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© Brad Tollefson/For The Washington Post
In his studio in Lubbock, Tex., Eddie Dixon demonstrates how he adds details to the eyes of a sculpture. He designed a Buffalo Soldier for the U.S. Military Academy.
LUBBOCK, Tex. Late into the night, in his studio on Avenue X, surrounded by props and tools and diagrams of the human form, sculptor Eddie Dixon worked on the Buffalo Soldier’s face.
It was the hardest part of the equestrian statue he was making for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The only pictures he had of the late Sgt. Sanders H. Matthews Sr. were photos of him as an elderly man, or with a smile. ....

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