Prince Edward County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. The Robert Russa Moton Museum, a National Historic Landmark, is the student birthplace of America’s Civil Rights Revolution. Dreamed by 16-year-old Barbara Johns, the 1951 Moton Student Strike produced three-fourths of the plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court […]
Lunenburg County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. On May 13, 1947, several African American leaders in Lunenburg County met at First Baptist Church in Victoria to discuss the need for a centrally located building large enough to accommodate county-wide gatherings. Out of a need to deal […]
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, when the Russell Grove School in Amelia County grew too big for its building, land was found in Nottoway County near Burkeville for a new school. Built in 1892 to educate African-American girls, the new school was named Ingleside […]
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, Mt. Nebo Church was founded shortly after the Civil War in 1867. A northerner named Mr. Rickets bought the place called Oak Hill and began preaching to a group of African Americans at this place in the woods. The […]
Nottoway County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, the Blackstone Female Institute was conceived in 1891 by George Pierce Adams, a Blackstone merchant, and Joshua Soule Hunter, a Methodist minister. Originally designed as a school to prepare young female students to enter Randolph-Macon Women’s College, it was […]
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. Though many freed African Americans continued after the Civil War to work the same farms on which they had been slaves, many also left their homes in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Often the sick, elderly and very young […]
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®, one of two Community Colleges in Southside Virginia that is open to people of all economic and social conditions. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT Brochure DOWNLOAD
Brunswick County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. In 1714, Governor Alexander Spotswood began construction of Fort Christanna on Virginia’s western frontier. The five-sided fort was built to defend the local settlers and allied Indian tribes. Fort Christanna was built on land set aside for the Saponie […]
Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood students hail from every corner of Virginia, across the U.S., and around the world to form a tight-knit, one-of-a-kind community. Longwood’s historic Jeffersonian architecture, lush quads and fountains are just steps away from Farmville—the oldest two-college town in the country. CLICK HERE FOR 2020 CRIEHT […]
Buckingham County – One of the 53 sites along the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail®. This 9-acre park is the site of the first African American Secondary School in Buckingham County which later became the Stephen J. Ellis Elementary School. The building has been fully restored. This is a great stop along the Civil […]
