Charlotte County Library
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Beginning in 1937, Ambassador and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce anonymously gave money to 11 sites in Southside Virginia to build libraries. The Bruce libraries, as they were called, became the first public libraries to allow access to African Americans. Though African Americans were restricted to using side or back doors and didn’t have full access to the collections, the Bruce libraries still represent an advance in access to library materials for African Americans.
