COLUMBIA, Tenn. (WTVF) — A statue of an important figure in Black history has just been unveiled in downtown Columbia. It's the centerpiece of a new roundabout, created to help share what's long been an undertold story.

"I've been gone so long," said Theopholis Maurice Lockridge, standing in downtown Columbia. "I left in 1964."

A crowd was gathered for an unveiling of a statue of Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court's first African American Justice. Marshall also has an important connection to Columbia, and Lockridge's father, Pastor Calvin Lockridge.

"We always had a joke," Lockridge remembered. "We would be millionaires if my father charged the going rate for work. What did he do? He fixed everybody's car. He fixed everybody's truck. My father was the pastor of this church here, First

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