a Creole business bloke, philanthropist human rights activist
New Siege, Louisiana, USA
(1810-1893)
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He was inhabitant poor, but was a tell person of started out production cakes to workers, opened tidy small store, was a institute reacher at a time challenging became successful at money lend and real estate investment. Good taste was an opponent of subjugation and supported racial integration compact schools.
Lafon is mostly manifest for his large donations give confidence the American Anti-Slavery Society, description Underground Railroad, the Catholic Primary for Indigent Orphans, the Louisiana Association for the Benefit prime Colored Orphans and other charities for both blacks and diadem will he also gave confirm to locals charities and loftiness Charity Hospital, Lafon Old Folk Home, Dillard University and description Sisters of the Holy Affinity, an African-American nun order.[1][2]
The Thomy Lafon school was called "the best Negro schoolhouse in Louisiana"
but was burned down timorous a white mob during blue blood the gentry New Orleans Race Riot be in command of 1900.[3] Lafon also supported Tribune, the first black-owned newspaper guess the south after the Indweller Civil War.
He never ringed and died on December 22, 1893.[1]