Sunday, May 25, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Mary Lumpkin who inherited a slave jail from her enslaver and turned it into an HBCU....



14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boom

Anonymous said...

Thanks Snitch for sharing this info.

Karenda said...

She turned lemons into lemonade. Beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Another YT Savior story.

No Chiraq said...

Amazing!

No Chiraq said...

Never heard of a 'Slave Jail', though. Vile!

Anonymous said...

I love this story. I wonder where and who were the professors.

Anonymous said...

Wow. So much history unknown

Anonymous said...

leominster to lemonade! agreed 9:07! my first thoughts exactly!

J.Swindell said...

Wonder if she's related to Elgin Lumpkin (bka Ginuwine).

Anonymous said...

A book called “the yellow wife” seems to be loosely based on her story.

Anonymous said...

Love It!!!

Anonymous said...

My people. We've made so much lemonade out of life's lemons. Mary Lumpkin was a true heroine.

Anonymous said...

i never knew this origin story! i have to look more into our hbcu history. we need more gems like this to remind us of th e caliber of people we descended from!

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