Virginia

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/19
  

  NAACP challenges legality of Confederate names on Virginia schools

  The NAACP is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to “eradicate the vestiges of a shameful, racist educational system in Hanover County” by ordering the schools to be renamed.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7/29/19
  

  Black Virginia lawmakers boycott Trump’s Jamestown visit commemorating 400 years of representative democracy

  Trump will join national and state leaders and dignitaries at Tuesday’s event, a commemorative session of the Virginia General Assembly at which Trump is to deliver remarks.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 7/18/19
  

  Historian Drew Gilpin Faust Pens Personal and Historical Essay: "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood"

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  She looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

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• 5/12/19
  

  George Mason: Lost Founder

  by William G. Hyland Jr.

  Why George Mason rightly deserves to be considered one of the fathers of our national government. 

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• SOURCE: Pacific Standard
  4/1/19
  

  Ken Woodley's new book recounts a local history of reparations in Virginia

  Ken Woodley recounts the shameful history of resistance to civil rights in Prince Edward County, Virginia—and how, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the county finally began to make amends.

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• SOURCE: UVAToday
  3/22/19
  

  In Memoriam: Joe Miller, Ground-Breaking Historian

  “Joe was instrumental in establishing non-Western fields in the department and in fostering the study of African history internationally."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/19
  

  ‘Slavery is not a game’: Virginia school apologizes over Black History Month exercise

  “It’s unacceptable, and it undermines the community and the education that our children receive.”

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/8/19
  

  Peter Wallenstein Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die”

  Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  2/4/`9
  

  Video of the Week 1: Rhae Lynn Barnes on the History of Blackface and the Virginia Racism Scandal

  Americans Must Face Violent History of Blackface Amid Virginia Gov. Racist Photo Scandal

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Virginia is the birthplace of American slavery and segregation — and it still can’t escape that legacy

  Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8-6-18
  

  New Virginia Monument Will Pay Tribute to Hundreds of Historic Women

  The monument features 12 bronze statues and a wall etched with 400 additional names of women who played an important role in shaping Virginia’s history.

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• SOURCE: The Richmond-Times Dispatch
  4-15-18
  

  Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks

  The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants.

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• SOURCE: The Roanoke Times
  12-16-17
  

  When this Virginia highway was built the markers for slave graves were pulled down

  Now they are being restored.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-29-17
  

  Virginia church to move plaques honoring Lee and Washington

  In response to violent protests over the fate of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this year, a 244-year-old Episcopal church in Alexandria is planning to move a set of plaques honoring former parishioners Robert E. Lee and George Washington.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Times
  10-15-17
  

  Confederate statues still stand in rural Virginia

  The chorus of opposition to Confederate monuments has yet to strike a chord in southwestern Virginia, where the service of the “brave men and women” who fought and died for the Confederacy is enshrined in the statue of a soldier in the center of the city.

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• 9-24-17
  

  Could the Governor’s Race in Virginia Turn on the Question of Confederate Monuments?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-3-16
  

  Historic black school in Virginia vandalized with racist messages

  A crime that took all of 20 minutes undermined six months' worth of restoration efforts.

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• SOURCE: France 24
  6-6-15
  

  Replica of General Lafayette's 'Hermione' arrives in Virginia

  A replica of a French frigate that in 1780 transported General Lafayette to America to rally US rebels battling for independence arrived to great fanfare Friday in the Virginia town where British forces eventually surrendered.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  2-17-15
  

  Penn historian finishes work on slavery he started researching 40 years ago

  Historian Richard Dunn’s study of plantations in Jamaica and Virginia has recently been published.