BY WALTER OPINDE Born into slavery on 1st December, 1855, in Greensburg, Kentucky, George Buckner grew to become an African-American physician and diplomat; a U.S. Minister to Liberia between 1913 and 1915. At the age of ten, Buckner was freed from slavery, after which he attended the Freedman’s School in Green County where he completed […]

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