"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

 - Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

Events

Speech at Slave Commeration, Linda Allen Hollis

Linda Allen Hollis speaking for the 2021 Slave Commemoration at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery. 

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Slave Commemoration 2021

Slave Commemoration at Mount Vernon with Doug Bradburn (CEO) Mount Vernon, Barika Porter and Sheila Coates (Black Women United for Action), October 9, 2021. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL...

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With Reverance

Some of the audience members at the Slave Commemoration at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery October 2021.

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West Ford Community Day

Linda Allen Hollis speaks about West Ford, her 3rd great grandfather, at the West Ford Community Day and Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2021, Martin Luther King Park. (Photo credit Mark...

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A Friend of Gum Springs

Robert Fasick and Linda Allen Hollis attending the West Ford Community Day and Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2021....

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Spring Field Talk

Linda Allen Hollis speaks at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum honoring Major George W. Ford. 

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Accepting the Award for the Activist

Linda Allen Hollis accepts award for Elise Ford Allen, 2nd great granddaughter of West Ford, son of George Washington, who was honored at the Springfield and Central Illinois African...

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At the Gala 2018

West Ford Descendants at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum Gala 2018. From left to right: Joy Allen Stone, Timothy Ford Allen and wife Patty, Anthony...

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