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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…
White 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 W.S. Bagby, a white teacher, would be much higher than that of an African American…
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…
Louisa County Schools 1884
William Jackson Walton served as the Superintendent of the Jackson District from 1871 until 1884 when he became one of the earliest Superintendents of Schools in Louisa County. As Superintendent, Walton kept records of how many schools were in each…
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…
Voting Registration: White
This document is a voting registration sheet that gives the names of all white men and women who are registered to vote in the year 1946. The document states that the individuals on the document (all residents of the Louisa Courthouse District) had…
Voting Registration: Black
This document is a voting registration sheet that gives the names of all black ("colored") men and women who are registered to vote in the year 1946. The document states that the individuals on the document (all residents of the Louisa Courthouse…
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…
Rosenwald Schools
Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears & Roebuck, was not only an entreprenuer, but he was also a philanthropist. Rosenwald created the Rosenwald Fund to help build schools for disadvantaged African Americans in the South during the segregation…
Race and Vital Records
This document is a letter from the Virginia State Registrar to all Local Registrars in Virginia demanding that the physicians and midwives take better care when writing ceritificates of birth and death. He explains that these certificates will become…
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…
Negro 4-H Clubs
During the Jim Crow era every area of life was segregated. In many ways, two parallel universes existed in the South and in Central Virginia; one white and one black. Since agriculture was vitally imporant to white and black farmers in 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…
1920 letter
Front and back of a letter discussing funds
Letter Request for a Meeting with the School Board to Select Rosenwald funds
Letter to Mr. Hayden, from Mr. Pendleton (supervisor)
Do not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter with pay amounts for certificates
Letter stating how much the board will pay
Board Meeting Notice Post Card Back
letter stating the date of the next school board meeting
