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
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 […]
