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Cleveland inventor Garrett A. Morgan, a son of former slaves, had a gift for inventing life-saving devices, including firefighter gas masks and the precursors of modern traffic lights.
The new show at the Victor Valley Museum shines a light on 23 African Americans who came west to start new lives in the early 1900s
Invited by Monmouth College, the popular orator was in the midst of a barnstorming cross-country tour that would last until April.
Greg Roberts of Historic New Richmond Inc. said the inspiration for the project came more than a decade ago while giving a tour to the late Civil Rights activist Carl Westmoreland.
Downing not only helped to recruit Black soldiers for the Civil War, he also organized numerous political conventions that reframed the meaning of the war.