“Nothing in the life of the nation has seemed to me more significant than that civilization which the colored man has built up in the midst of a white society organized against it.”
About Leslie Pinckney Hill
14 May 1880–15 February 1960
Leslie Pinckney Hill entered the world on May 14, 1880, in Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Samuel H. Hill, a man who had known the brutal chains of enslavement, and Sarah E. Hill. In the shadow of the post-Reconstruction South, where the promises of freedom still clashed with the realities of Jim Crow oppression…