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Kristen Green

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Photograph of building at Virginia Union University

A Formerly Enslaved Woman Helped Found a Key American University

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.

by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 10, 2022

Illustration of the shadow of Mary Lumpkin over the blueprint of Virginia Union University

The Enslaved Woman Who Liberated a Slave Jail and Transformed It Into an HBCU

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

by Kristen Green via Smithsonian on April 4, 2022

African men in slave pens in Washington D.C. circa 1849-1850.

How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.

by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 31, 2019

Prince Edward County's Long Shadow of Segregation

50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.

by Kristen Green via The Atlantic on August 1, 2015

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