Celebrating the uncelebrated
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Cliff Lewis, right, makes L.B. Brown's willingness to work across racial lines and how he helped the community in Bartow while Deborah L. Mack, director of Community and Constituent Services for the Smithsonian, listens. The Brown House and his legacy will be featured at the museum's African-American Museum which will is scheduled to open in November 2015. Here they were sitting in a living room in the Brown House and with them were LaFleur Paysour with the Smithsonian and Bartow resident Chuck Warren.
A bit of Bartow is going to Washington.
Specifically it’s the L.B. Brown House. When the African-American Museum opens in 2015 at the Smithsonian Institution pictures of the house and the life of the L.B. Brown, the freed slave who built up much of that section of Bartow will be on display there.
