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Letter Back - Request Concerning School Location
Gustavus Jackson
G. W. Hayden
Jam? Hayden
Matt Hayden
Ealiar Underwood
James Robinson
Diamond Robinson
R. Wood
J? ???
Bettie Shelton
W. J. Adams
G. W. Hayden
Jam? Hayden
Matt Hayden
Ealiar Underwood
James Robinson
Diamond Robinson
R. Wood
J? ???
Bettie Shelton
W. J. Adams
Instructions for Registration/Racial Integrity laws
This document is a pamphlet directing Local Registrars and "Other Agents in Adminstration of the Law" on how to register indivduals on birth certificates. This pamphlet also contains a copy of the Racial Purity Act laws (for use at the discretion of…
Historic Shady Grove School
The historic Shady Grove School was born out of a need to provide a facility for the education of black students in the Jackson District near Gum Spring. In the words of former State Supervisor of Negro Education(1925), W. D. Gresham,"the Shady Grove…
Do not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Delinquent Land Sale
This document is a notification of an auction that is scheduled to be held at the front door of the Louisa Courthouse on the first Monday in January of 1936. The items in up for auction are tracts of land whose owners failed to pay the taxes on the…
Civil Rights in Virginia
The PDF file to the right is based upon a powerpoint presentation funded by Dominion Virginia Power. The presentation uses photos, many from the Louisa County Historical Society archives, to tell the story of Civil Rights from the end of the Civil…
Board Meeting Notice Post Card Back
letter stating the date of the next school board meeting
Black Teacher's Pay Receipt
This pay receipt demonstrates a short period of equality between white and African American teachers in the Jackson District of Louisa. Later, this pay receipt, for Alice Burrows, an African American teacher, would be much lower than that of a white…
1920 letter
Front and back of a letter discussing funds
School Board Approve Lumber
Sept 11, 1923
The Co Sch Board has approved of the 2 class lumber for Shady Grove School
Malcolm Hiter, Clerk
W. O Bumpass, Chairman
The Co Sch Board has approved of the 2 class lumber for Shady Grove School
Malcolm Hiter, Clerk
W. O Bumpass, Chairman
pamphlet for plan 1
Letter stating that the supervisor is sending pamphlets and the Rosenwald Application
