Ever heard of Robert ‘Free Bob’ Vernon, the former slave who founded Vernon Town in Louisiana?
2 years ago
In the town of Amite, Louisiana, a family-owned funeral home has served the Black community for generations, storing decades of information in the process through the records of funeral programs. “One day I sat down and started looking at them, and I said, ‘oh look at the history I didn’t know about the Amite colored...