About the Exhibition: The objects in this gallery inspire awe, while also prompting reflection about what we treasure as individuals, as communities, and as a society.
Highlights: Artifacts of note include a writing desk used by Lynchburg poet and civil rights activist Anne Spencer (1882-1975); a personal diary kept by George Washington (1732-1799) during his first term as president; a flight jacket worn by Tony Dowd (1924-2015) while serving as a B-24 bomber tail gunner in China during WWII; the lunch counter from Richmond’s F.W. Woolworth Store where Black civil rights activists staged a sit-in to protest racial discrimination in 1960; The Virginia Declaration of Rights penned by George Mason (1725-1792) in 1776 which was part of the state constitution when Virginia claimed independence from Britain; and more!
