On Monday, in honor of what would have been Jordan’s 87th birthday, throngs of...
Claire Goodman/Staff writerKendleton mayor Daryll Humphrey vividly recalls the Sunday morning church services he attended as a child listening to the sermons of the Rev. Benjamin Jordan at Oak Hill Church in Kendleton.
. Newkirk is an expert on Black history; the museum is the first in the county devoted entirely to Black history. Before the county closed off access to the park, Humphrey said, his family paid their respects to his great-grandmother, great-aunts and great-uncles twice a year. Now, without access from the road and with the graves in a state of disarray, he hasn’t been able to visit their gravesites.
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