Brent Leggs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Brent Leggs
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Nov 22, 1972(1972-11-22)
Age	52
Birthplace	Paducah
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Scorpio

Brent Leggs Biography

Brent Leggs is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on November 22, 1972 in Paducah, Kentucky, United States.

“The largest-ever campaign to preserve African-American historic sites,” in its first year it “received more than eight hundred applications requesting nearly ninety-one million dollars in grants.” Set up as a multi-year effort with funding from public and private sources, it does not receive federal support since “the federal government stopped allocating funds to the National Trust in 1997.” Leggs has been responsible for much of the Fund’s financial support, persuading both wealthy individuals and mainstream nonprofits such as the JPB Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to contribute.

In 2012 he was named a Loeb Fellow, an honor given to those with, among other characteristics, “a passionate commitment to revitalizing communities.” In 2018 he received the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award.

Brent Leggs Net Worth

Brent Leggs is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brent Leggs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Demond “Brent” Leggs (born 22 November 1972) is an African American architectural historian and preservationist from Paducah, Kentucky. Among his roles at the National Trust for Historic Preservation he has been the founding director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, with the goal of raising $25,000,000 to protect and preserve African American history via material culture and beyond.

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Following this event, in 2018 Leggs wrote in Essence about the history of saving sites significant to African American history and the multifaceted importance of doing so. He credited the National Association of Colored Women, led by Mary B. Talbert, for “inaugurating the Black preservation movement” by preserving Frederick Douglass’ home in Washington a century earlier. Pointing out that the National Trust for Historic Preservation was “chartered by Congress in 1949 to help tell the full American story,” Leggs concluded that “when the past is blanched and distorted through lack of diversity and representation, it affects both our understanding of today’s issues and our capacity to grow in the future.”

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Brent Leggs celebrates birthday on November 22 of every year.

His early practical preservation work includes being project manager for places designated by the National Trust as National Treasures, including Joe Frazier’s Gym in Philadelphia; Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey; and Villa Lewaro, Madam C. J. Walker’s estate in Irvington, New York.