Appomattox County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, learn of the story behind the Freedman’s Bureau mission to open schools for African American children after the end of the American Civil War. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, learn how this school taught practical trade skills to students from the early 1920’s. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
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Appomattox County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, the museum houses memorabilia from the original Carver Price school. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, The James Solomon Russell – Saint Paul’s College Museum and Archives mission is to collect, organize, preserve and promote access to its collections of archival records, books, printed materials, photographs, artifacts and other items pertaining to the life of […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Beulah African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was founded in 1868. Originally, it was known as The Colored Methodist Church of Farmville. The original wooden-framed building was destroyed, by fire in 1898. The cornerstone on the present building was […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. The First Baptist Church was organized in 1866 as an outgrowth of the predominantly white Farmville Baptist Church. In 1949, following the death of the Rev. C. H. Griffin, the Church voted unanimously to call his son, L. […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Founded on March 5, 1839, as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood is one of the oldest colleges originally for women in the country. In 1842 the cornerstone was laid for the first true college building, which is […]
Buckingham County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Carter Godwin Woodson was born about three miles east on 19 December 1875. As a youth he mined coal near Huntington, W. Va. He earned degrees at Berea College (B.L., 1903), University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A., 1908), and […]
Amelia County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. At first the school was primitive, with rough walls, boards painted black to act as chalkboards and no desks. Parents joined to pay the teachers and a man to cut wood for the woodstove, the school’s only source of […]
