MEDIA Show Media Credit: the Virginia Historical SocietyOriginal Author: UnknownCreated: Nineteenth centuryMedium: Photographic printPublisher: Virginia Historical SocietyWilliam Washington BrowneWilliam Washington Browne, a former slave who founded Richmond's Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, an African American fraternal organization, sits for a portrait in the late nineteenth century.FEATURED INGrand Fountain of the United Order of True ReformersWilliam Washington Browne (1849–1897)