The Leigh Street Armory, in Richmond, Virginia, is the first armory ever built by Black Americans within the United States. Currently the former armory is the site of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.
Faithe Norrell, the History Services Associate of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, is related to civil rights activists Maggie Walker.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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