Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (died 1900)

Lucy Goode Brooks

American slave and humanitarian (1818–1900)

Lucy Goode Brooks was an enslaved American woman who later became instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.

Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans

Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans was an African American orphanage at 112 West Charity Street in Richmond, Virginia. It began as a program to provide care and education to African American children and later evolved into a foster care center, an unwed mothers and pre-adoption…

September 13

Day of the year

September 13 is the 256th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 109 days remain until the end of the year.