The Virginia Constitution of 1869 established a statewide system of free public schools. The schools evolved in the 1900s with both Jim Crow restrictions and Progressive Era reforms. Even progressive movements, though, were rife with racism, and Black activists rarely had a…
Author Sadeqa Johnson’s novel, “Yellow Wife,” found her while she was exploring the history of the slave trade in Richmond. Read this award-winning work today.
In 1938, during the Great Depression and in the shadow of Jim Crow, a group of Black mothers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded an organization to create educational, cultural, civic, and…
Connie Matthews Harshaw is thrilled that Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists are beginning their excavation to find the original structure of First Baptist Church, one of the country’s oldest churches founded entirely…
In 1970, in order to satisfy a federal mandate to desegregate Richmond Public Schools, Judge Robert Merhige Jr. ordered the implementation of a busing program that would attempt to achieve…
This 17-minute segment from VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer at HolyPost.com is ideal for families with kids ages ten and up. Slavery ended in America with the stroke of a pen in…
One hundred years after Richmond’s founding, two Virginia doctors organized the first medical school here. They selected Richmond because of its large population of African Americans, both enslaved and free. At…
In 1842, a year before the publication of his book, A Christmas Carol, the world-famous British author Charles Dickens came to Richmond during an American tour. For his 3-day visit, he…
Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument, slated to be dedicated in October 2019, gives Liza Mickens yet another reason to be proud of her great-great grandmother, Maggie Walker.…
On the day after Christmas in 1811, an enslaved African American blacksmith named Gilbert Hunt was visiting his wife downtown at a home where she was a servant. While there,…
The female actors that walked into the Brooklyn office of StudioEIS weren’t there to audition for a role in a film or television show. They were there to help sculptor…
From the James River to Shields Lake to neighborhood pools, white stakeholders did what they could to keep Richmond swimming segregated in the 20th century.
