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This summer, Congress added the Moton Museum and other sites that played an important role in desegregating schools in South Carolina, Delaware and Washington, D.C. to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park in Topeka, Kansas.
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In 1960 a group of teenagers from Virginia Union University staged a sit-in at a downtown Richmond department store. Thirty-four of them were arrested.…
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A woman who fought quietly for justice and equality is being honored this weekend in Christiansburg, Virginia. Civil rights icon Nannie Hairston passed…
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Teachers are sometimes faced with some pretty thorny issues when current events make their way into their classrooms.Often they get limited guidance from…
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Every picture tells a story. That's why Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and partners from across the nation are creating the Image Portal, an…
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Civil Rights pioneer Jesse Jackson is on a three day voter registration tour of Virginia. But Monday morning in Roanoke, he also had a message for current…
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Does Governor Terry McAuliffe have the power to automatically restore voting rights to former felons who have served their time? The governor and his…
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Virginia’s Governor made national headlines last week for restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons in the state. Critics say McAuliffe is…