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A Better Life for Their Children:

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From 1912-37, the Rosenwald schools program built 5,357 schools, shops, and teacher’s homes across 15 Southern and...

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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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Advice and Etiquette Books

Studying etiquette books offers researchers a glimpse of how people interacted and how they adapted to their changing...

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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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Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South

On May 16, 2013, Stephanie Deutsch delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the...

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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

As of Winter 2021, Virginia remains among the top ten states for largest Filipino American populations, and by no...

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Chief Judge Roger Gregory on Integration

The Honorable Roger Gregory, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, discusses the importance of integration.

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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.

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Confederate Imprints

Before secession, most of the established publishers of booking, broadsides, and sheet music were located in such large...

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Curator Conversation: Bringing it Together: Stories Behind “Our Commonwealth”

In this series, VMHC curatorial staff bring exclusive member-only programs to you on a variety of interesting topics. To see upcoming events in this...

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Curator Conversations: Tomorrow's Treasures Today

In this series, VMHC curatorial staff bring exclusive member-only programs to you on a variety of interesting topics. To see upcoming events in this...

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Determined

Two Black female students protesting school closures by marching with posters

This exhibition examined the long history of black Americans in North America as they have fought for freedom, equal...

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Determined Traveling Exhibition

Bring Determined to your venue! Learn how you can bring our Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality...

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Education in Virginia

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The Virginia Constitution of 1869, passed during Reconstruction, established a statewide system of free public schools...

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Female African American Civil Rights Pioneers in Education: The Road to Brown & Beyond

Professor Beth Hopkins, Wake Forest University Law School (Retired) and JMC Board Member, explores the women pioneers of Brown & Beyond. Hopkins is...

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Freedmen's Schools

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In the antebellum South, African Americans were generally prevented from receiving education. After Appomattox...

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Fresh Paint

This unprecedented exhibition explored the power of murals to encourage reflection on Virginia’s past by inviting...

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Glee Clubs

The VMHC has several glee club items in its collection. The earliest item, an 1848 broadside entitled “Rally Whigs”...

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Hampton Institute and Booker T. Washington

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in 1868 by General Samuel Armstrong. He was interested in moral

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How Imperfect is Our Past? A Conversation with Charles Bryan

On March 15, 2022, Dr. Charles Bryan and VMHC president and CEO Jamie Bosket had a conversation about some of the topics covered in Dr. Bryan’s latest...