Hi everyone. I’m asking for help sharing and amplifying my family’s story.

My family, the Lucas family, originally owned over 3,000 acres of land in Mount Meigs, Alabama, passed down from my 3× great-grandfather, Brake B. Lucas Sr., and his wife, Edna Lucas. Edna Lucas wrote a will directing that the land be preserved for the family and passed down to her descendants, and that if any heir violated those terms, their inheritance was to be revoked and split among the remaining heirs.

After Brake B. Lucas Sr. and Edna passed, the land was supposed to transfer through the family according to Edna’s will. Instead, many heirs were never clearly informed of the will’s contents or their inheritance rights.

In 1960 (April 6), a relative — Uncle McKinley — signed government lease/rental contracts (not a sale) involving the land.

From that point on, for decades:

• Heirs were kept in the dark

• Probate courts repeatedly failed to protect descendants

• Edna’s will was not transparently honored

• Documents and records were mishandled or withheld

• The land continued generating value while heirs received nothing

• Trusts and agreements appeared that family members never consented to

• Courts allowed this to continue without proper accountability

We recently posted a video explaining this on our TikTok page @lucashiddenlegacy, and it has already reached 93.1K views and 16.7K likes, showing that many people recognize how serious and familiar this kind of injustice is.

We are now uncovering records that suggest systemic probate failures, breach of fiduciary duty, and long-term exploitation of Black-owned land in Mount Meigs, Alabama. This mirrors cases like Bruce’s Beach, where land was taken through “legal” systems that failed Black families.

I’m not asking for money or legal advice.

I’m asking for visibility.

If you can:

• Share this story

• Repost it on other platforms

• Mention it in conversations about land justice, probate abuse, or Black history

• Help it reach journalists, historians, or advocates

That would mean everything. Stories like this disappear when no one speaks up.

Thank you for reading and for helping us be seen.