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 […]
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
