“If civilization preserves the whole past record of the race in literature, art, trade, war and peace, culture is concerned with the values of that record to human betterment.”
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…