Vincent deForest and Robert DeForrest founded the Afro-American Bicentennial Corp. in D.C. and pushed the federal government to recognize Black historic sites.
Vincent deForest and Robert DeForrest pursued this initiative through the Afro-American Bicentennial Corp., which they had created to nudge the 1976 independence commemoration in a less-Eurocentric direction.
“There wasn’t a lot of stability,” he recalled. “And maybe that’s one of the reasons why history became so important to us.” In those early days, no one in the park service’s higher echelons was taking their calls. “The park service was a little plantation at the time,” Vincent said. Two days later, the brothers found themselves in a meeting with Rep. Julia Butler Hansen , a member of the House Appropriations Committee. Soon, the committee earmarked funds for an ABC contract with the park service to conduct an exhaustive survey of Black history sites.
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