“The man of culture is not to be surprised, or stampeded, or hurried. He can be neither frustrated nor defeated.”
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…