"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"
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Title: Tracing the Washington Blood - Slave's Descendent Probes Link to Mount Vernon Heritage by Vanessa Barnes Hillian.
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This is the original drawing of West Ford in an ornate frame from the archives of the MVLA. Linda Allen B. Hollis took the photo while during research on the family's legacy. ...
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Photo of the enlistment document of Major George Ford into the 23rd Kansas Volunteers during the Spanish American War.
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The siblings at the the 7th Annual Gala "Honoring our Heritage" in support of honoree, Elise Ford Allen, October 25th, Springfield, Illinois. Attendees left to right: Front, Joy...
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Family members: Mark Hollis, Joy Allen Stone, Homer Henry and Linda Allen Hollis at Bushfield 2022. (Photo credit Angela Allen Henry for WFL).
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Family visiting the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery in 2022. From left to right: Mark Hollis, Linda Allen Hollis, Joy Allen Stone, Angela Allen Henry, and Homer Henry.
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Protest about widening Richmond Hwy that leads into Gum Springs into 13 lanes. Community protests. (Photo Credit Fox 5 DC, 2021)
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West Ford descendants view original pencil sketched portrait of West Ford in the Mount Vernon archives. From left to right: Joy Allen Stone, Samantha Snyder (Mount Vernon ...
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Ford descendants visiting the eight family members buried at Camp Butler Cemetery. From left to right: Joy Allen Stone, Carol Adams Allen, Timothy Ford Allen, Linda Allen Hollis, Angela Allen...
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This is a photo of Jacquelyn Allen-Whitehead, whose mother is Theresa Branch and her father is...
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Photo from the LABH collection.
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Obituary of Dr. Cecil Bruce Ford.
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Ford Family Descendants Angela Henry and Linda Hollis pictured with Art Wilson, Underground Railroad Historian. All three were attendees at the 7th Gala "Honoring Our...
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Title: George Washington in their Family tree, black sisters say - Thesis says he fathered slave - their great-great-great-great-grandfather, by Steve Groer, November 4th, 1996.
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Harrison Ford and James O. Allen in Long Beach.
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A letter written in 1918 to Major George Ford fom his friend W.E.B. Du Bois after learning he was ill.
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Photo of Elise and James at 1963 wedding of their daughter, Carol.
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Cousins Dr. Judy Saunders Burton and Linda Allen Hollis at the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery, 2000.
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This photo shows former Mount Vernon employee, Brenda Parker, providing private libations for the Ford family ancestors buried in the Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery: Jenny (grandmother of West...
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