Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

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Fourth and fifth-grade students are encouraged to participate in a Lincoln Birthday Poster Contest hosted by the Vermilion County Museum Society. The contest is in conjunction with an open house ...