Cumberland County – One of 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Formerly known as the Luther P. Jackson School. Although there were one-room schoolhouses for the lower grades, there were no buildings available where African American students could be educated in the higher grades. This location tells a story about how […]
Cumberland County – One of 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Learn the story about the man, Jackson Davis, who was an educator and a reformer. It is through his life’s work that the unique view of how poor the African American children’s schools were during the first half of the […]
Cumberland County – One of 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Learn the story about how Hamilton High School was built through community fund-raising drives and land donations. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Cumberland County – One of 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, this is one of the schools built by funds donated to Dr. Booker T. Washington from Julius Rosenwald, to ensure education was available to African American children across the South. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Follow the self-guided driving tour of 53 sites telling powerful stories of the fight for an equal education through Southside Virginia from the end of the American Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the newly expanded self-guided driving tour brings together for the first time 53 of these historically significant sites and tells […]
