Amelia County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1865 Mrs. Samantha Jane Neil left her home in Pennsylvania to search for her husband’s body. He had been a Union army officer and had died somewhere in Amelia County only a few days before Confederate Gen. Robert […]
Appomattox County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Historic Camp Winonah, the Mozella Price home place, is located directly on Hwy 460. It is the first stop on the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail. The site is a little past the town of Appomattox. From east […]
Buckingham County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Union Grove School is representative of the many one-room schools for African-American students in Buckingham County and throughout the area. The African-American members of the community built Union Grove around 1925, and like most schools, it was named after […]
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Southside Virginia Community College has two campuses: the Christanna Campus in Alberta, which opened in 1970, and the John H. Daniel campus in Keysville, which opened in 1971. The college is part of the statewide system of community colleges […]
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 […]
Charlotte County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail® – After the Civil War, in the Red Oak area of Charlotte County, many freed slaves were welcomed to worship at Antioch Baptist Church, a traditionally white church. The Antioch congregation helped raise money to build Salem Baptist Church […]
Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1911 a group of Dinwiddie County’s African-American residents established the Rocky Branch School in Sutherland. The school was a typical two-room schoolhouse. It had been moved from original location across from Ocran Methodist Church on U.S. Route 460 […]
Dinwiddie County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Prior to the Civil War, Dinwiddie County was home to several private academies for those who could afford to pay for their education. While it was mostly affluent males who were educated, Pegram’s Academy, Female Academy, Girard Heartwell School […]
Mecklenburg County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1876 the United Presbyterian Church and the Rev. J. J. Ashenhurst, the first principal, formed Thyne Institute, the only facility in Mecklenburg County offering courses for blacks until 1923. Two years after opening in a small building that […]
Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1954, after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, that United States schools must integrate, Senator Harry S. Byrd and several Virginia governors followed the policy of “massive resistance.” Integration was […]
