Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, chairman of the Virginia Union University Board of Trustees, dedicates a marker last Friday on the campus commemorating Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman and common-law wife of slave trader Robert Lumpkin, who gave VUU its first home following the Civil War.
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Virginia Union University President Hakim J. Lucas stood before an audience of more than 350 students, faculty, alumni, trustees and dignitaries last Friday to remember the past and mark the path to the future at the university’s 155th Anniversary Founders Day Convocation.
