Seventy-three years ago, 10 men made history as the first Black firefighters in Richmond. In 2021 artists Sir James Thornhill, Jason Ford and Kevin Orlosky paid tribute to the firefighters with a mural painted on the wall of Mocha Temple on North 2nd Street in Jackson Ward. Charles L. Belle, William E. Brown, Douglas P. Evans, Harvey S. Hicks II, Warren W. Kersey, Bernard C. Lewis, Farrar Lucas, Arthur L. Page, Arthur C. St. John and Linwood M. Wooldridge manned Engine Company No. 9 in September in 1950, according to published reports.
