John Anderson Lankford was born on this date in1874. He was an #African American architect, attorney, blacksmith, real estate broker, professor, and author. He was born and raised on his parents’ farm in Potosi, Missouri, one of eleven children of former slaves Philip Anderson Lankford and Nancy Ella Johnson Lankford. His paternal grandfather was Rev. […]
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