Petersburg – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Learn the story behind how this high school was accredited as a four-year high school in 1921 and served for decades as the training ground for many distinguished African Americans, including hundreds of educators. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT […]
Petersburg – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Opened in 1924, the McKenney Library was segregated for decades, with white patrons allowed to use the main level and African Americans relegated to the basement. In 1960 several African American ministers led an effort to desegregate the main level. […]
Petersburg – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state’s mandate. The building had been moved to this site in the 1830s from Bolling Hill, where it had served in the 1820s both as a church and […]
Halifax County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Many churches in the second half of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century helped fill African Americans’ need for schooling. Frequently, a church would raise funds to build a school, with county governments occasionally offering […]
Halifax County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Determined to provide elementary education for young African Americans, the Rev. Parham B. Ragland started a school in his backyard sometime around 1875. Though the “Backyard School” was private, Rev. Ragland was able to garner financial support for his […]
Halifax County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Mountain Road School No. 1 was built around 1919 for Black students in the Halifax, VA, community. The museum is named in honor of the Rev. Lee Ernest Coleman. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Halifax County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. The Mead Community Center is the realization of a dream of Caleb Robinson, who imagined an African American gathering place to enhance and educate the community. Professor Robinson was born in Jamaica in 1864 and graduated from Virginia Union […]
Greensville County/City of Emporia – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. The Greensville County Training School (GCTS) began sometime before 1912 as a small woodframe building and went on to contribute to African American education in Emporia for more than 50 years. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT […]
Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Dinwiddie’s Southside High School was started in 1908 as Dinwiddie Normal and Industrial Institute and was owned and operated by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church. The only school in the area for African Americans for several decades, […]
Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1938 the Virginia General Assembly chartered a residential care facility for African American males aged 8–21, with mental disabilities. From 1943 to 1952, as attitudes changed and the idea of occupational education began to take hold, the Colony […]
