Robert DeForest announces the establishment of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corp. at the Frederick Douglass Home in 1970 while it was undergoing rehabilitation by the National Park Service.

ID: 4185 ~ Source: Collection of Vincent DeForrest
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Afro-American Institute
Robert DeForest announces the establishment of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corp. at the Frederick Douglass Home in 1970 while it was undergoing rehabilitation by the National Park Service.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Afro-American Institute

Vincent DeForest, quoted above, and his brother Robert DeForrest (they spelled their last names differently) worked for at least a decade out of the large rowhouse at 1236 Euclid Street to document African American historic sites across the United…