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A Descendant of Freed Slaves, Financier Pursues Family’s $900 Million Oil Claim

Kneeland Youngblood alleges his family was deprived of the riches from oil-soaked land and is suing ConocoPhillips

Kneeland Youngblood is the co-founder of private-equity firm Pharos Capital Group.
By Benoît Morenne
 | Photographs by Zerb Mellish for The Wall Street Journal

DALLAS—At Kneeland Youngblood’s graduation from Princeton, his grandfather told him that he had once sought to visit the campus in the 1920s but was stopped at the school’s gates because he was Black.

After amassing a fortune, Youngblood donated to build a new plaza at his alma mater and had his grandfather’s name chiseled into the steps. 

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