A Famous African-American's Dream

A Famous African-American's Dream

 

The earliest African-American national radio and television minster and advisor of three American presidents, the Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux purchased the lands around you in 1936. His dream was to establish a farm and a national memorial to the progress of African-Americans in this country. The first African-Americans in British Colonial American landed in Virginia possibly at Jamestown in 1619.

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National Park Service