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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…
Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesA financier descended from freed enslaved people is suing an oil company for $900 million alleging that his family’s claim on a resource-rich tract of land was unfairly ignored, according to a report. Kneeland Youngblood, 67, told The Wall Street Journal that his ancestors bought the land in the Eagle Ford shale in Karnes County, Texas, after they had been freed from slavery. Youngblood now alleges that oil company ConocoPhillips disregarded his fa
Kneeland Youngblood, 67, lodged the fierce lawsuit against multinational oil company ConocoPhillips over the disputed ranch land, which is 60 miles southeast of San Antonio in Karnes County.