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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…
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…
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 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…
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 Michie House
This house was moved in 2013 to a new location at The Sargeant Museum in the Town of Louisa.
Shady Grove School Correspondence letter 1
Securing funds for a new school in 1923
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
Letter Suggest Meeting w Supervisor
Letter stating that the supervisor will be unable to meet the second monday in may.
Reply letter suggest Meeting w Supervisor
Reply letter stating that he can meet anytime in June
Letter Thanks for Kindness during Visit
Letter from the supervisor giving thanks for kindness during his visit