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Board Meeting Notice Post Card Back
letter stating the date of the next school board meeting
Letter with pay amounts for certificates
Letter stating how much the board will pay
Do not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter Request for a Meeting with the School Board to Select Rosenwald funds
Letter to Mr. Hayden, from Mr. Pendleton (supervisor)
1920 letter
Front and back of a letter discussing funds
Shady Grove School Correspondence letter 1
Securing funds for a new school in 1923
The Michie House
This house was moved in 2013 to a new location at The Sargeant Museum in the Town of Louisa.
Massive Resistance
(Pictured is the A. G. Richardson school for African-American students in Louisa County, Virginia.)
The 1954 the Supreme Court decision known as Brown v. Board of Education overturned the previous “separate but equal†ruling on which a decades…
The 1954 the Supreme Court decision known as Brown v. Board of Education overturned the previous “separate but equal†ruling on which a decades…
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
These two images show members of the state WCTU, including Mrs. R. E. Trice, Sr., in the close-up.
Women who felt that alcohol was destroying their families and their society formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a prestigious…
Virginia Warns Her People
The image comes from the Department of Historic Resources. Â
In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote. Â It highlights where there are more colored…
The Struggles of Women's Suffrage
The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…
Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley
Helen Hoy Greeley was an early and significant voice for the women’s suffrage movement. Born in Albany, New York in 1878, she received her law degree and began to practice in 1903. Se became deeply involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In…
Shady Grove, a Rosenwald School
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) is credited with the establishment of the Rosenwald Foundation, an organization that worked to promote and improve African-American schools. The fund helped build over 5,300 schools across the South, including 381 r in…
Church Incarnation
Two women standing in front of the door of a church.
Nurse
Unidentified Nurse
Pyrite Mine Women
Unidentified women associated with the Mineral Pyrite Mines
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Kate C. Hambleton Foster
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams, wife of Colonel W. H. Adams, manager of Arminius Mines, Mineral, VA
Three Women with a Child
Three unidentified women standing with a child