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A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe

On July 23 at noon, Eric Hall delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “A Native Son Comes Home: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe.”

Virginia’s own...

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A New Era in Building: Black Educational Activism in Goochland County, 1911–1932

Join historians Brian Daugherity and Alyce Miller for a lecture about Black educational activism in Goochland County in the early twentieth century.

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Activism from Home 101 (Commonwealth Classroom)

Interested in addressing a problem, making something better, or helping others in your community? Whether you are a veteran activist or a novice eager...

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Agents of Change

Organized in conjunction with the statewide Women’s Suffrage Centennial, this exhibition featured artifacts from the...

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Agents of Change Traveling Exhibition

Bring Agents of Change to your venue! Learn how you can bring our Agents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia from...

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All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s

On March 29, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the...

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Arthur Ashe Boulevard Dedication Ceremony — Full Ceremony

On Saturday, June 22, 2019, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture co-hosted the official dedication ceremony of Arthur Ashe Boulevard in...

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Ashe ’68 Photo Exhibit

See near-life-sized displays feature rarely seen images of Arthur Ashe by LIFE photographer John Zimmerman.

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Beginnings of Black Education

Few black Virginians received a formal education until public schools were widely established during Reconstruction. Public

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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found...

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Brown I and Brown II

In 1950 the NAACP decided that it would no longer file lawsuits seeking equal educational facilities, but only those that

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Brown's Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia

On April 12, 2012, Jill Titus delivered a lecture entitled "Brown's Battleground in Prince Edward County, Virginia."

When the U.S. Supreme Court...

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Capable

This display features the remarkable stories of young adults with diverse abilities, demonstrating how our entire...

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capABLE RVA 2019

In partnership with The Next Move Program, the VMHC is displaying portraits featuring remarkable and varied stories of...

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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

Photograph of Araceli Marcial and her cohort during the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing graduation march

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Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

The civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was one phase in the longer black freedom struggle that began when the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 and continues today. Much of the civil rights movement was seen on television. Because the most notorious events and horrific images were from the Deep South, Virginia's role in the movement tends to be overlooked. It was in Virginia, however, that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed more lawsuits than in any other state, and Virginia's program of Massive Resistance, though ultimately futile, showed how to slow the march for integration to a crawl.

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