Layle Lane (1893 - 1976), educator, social activist, humanitarian and political leader, lived and ran a camp for inner-city Philadelphia and New York, NY, youth on this property of 23 acres called Lacitadelle Camp (now Manor), named after the fortress in Haiti representing high ideals and principles. During the depression years (1930s), she ran a farm camp program (Co-op) at Lacitadelle to feed poor inner-city families in Philadelphia and New York. Layle played a major role in the first march on Washington in 1941, which passed the Fair Employment Practice Act and Commission under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1948, Layle played a major role in encouraging President Harry Truman to desegregate the American Military. This street, "Layle Lane", is the first street named after an African-American woman in Bucks County, PA.
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