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
Lunenburg County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, tells the how a German immigrant, who had served in the missions in Africa, was sought out by the African Americans of the community to start teaching their children. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Lunenburg County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, tells the how the parents of this community raised funds to buy the 10 acres and build the school. With help from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, they were able to start teaching their children. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT […]
Chesterfield County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Read the story about the first school in this country authorized to grant a college education to African Americans. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1950, Prince Edward Lake Recreation Area became Prince Edward State Park for Negroes — Virginia’s eighth state park and the only one accessible at that time to African Americans. During an era of segregation, this site was […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Established in 1843, most likely by free Black people, the Beneficial Benevolent Society of the Loving Sisters and Brothers of Hampden Sydney consisted of two mutual benefit groups for African American men and women of the Hampden Sydney […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Hampden-Sydney College, the last college formed under the British Crown, has been in continuous operation since it opened in 1775. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the college did not publicly take sides. Some faculty children […]
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
