How a former enslaved woman turned ‘The Devil’s Half Acre’ into one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs in Va.
Mary Lumpkin inherited her enslaver’s jail and then leased the property to help educate newly freed African Americans after the Civil War From a jail house to a schoolhouse and now one of the nation’s oldest HBCUS. RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Mary Lumpkin, who was once enslaved and forced […]
