Virginia

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/26/2020
  

  A Liberal Town Built Around Confederate Generals Rethinks Its Identity

  The town finds itself reassessing its identity, divided between the growing imperative to eradicate symbols of slavery and decades of cultural and economic ties to the Confederates who fought to preserve it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  History Meets Mythology: Debate Stirs over Push to Rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ Fame

  Thomas Chambliss Williams served as superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools from the 1930s to the 1960s. He resisted integration, argued black and white students learn differently and fired a black cafeteria worker when she joined a NAACP lawsuit compelling Alexandria to end segregation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  Across Virginia, Local Officials Weigh Taking Down Reminders Of Confederate Legacy

  Virginia has more Confederate statues than any other state, according to Julie V. Langan, director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  Confederate Memorials Quietly Removed from Virginia Capitol Overnight

  “Virginia has a story to tell that extends far beyond glorifying the Confederacy and its participants,” House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn said in an emailed statement, condemning the Confederate ideology as based on maintaining slavery.

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/14/2020
  

  Edith White, World War II ‘Code Girl’ and Norfolk Academy Librarian who Fought Massive Resistance, Dies at 96

  Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/24/2020
  

  Charlottesville Official Wants To Revisit Statues’ Removal

  The move could potentially inflame the controversy that led to deadly violence by far-right defenders of the Confederate memorials in 2017.

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• SOURCE: Architectural Digest
  5/5/2020
  

  A New Public Art Installation in Alexandria Confronts the City’s Ties to the Slave Trade

  Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous examines an oft-overlooked aspect of the Virginia port community’s history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/23/2020
  

  Joseph Mccoy was Lynched by a Mob in 1897. At a Virtual Remembrance, Officials Vowed not to Forget.

  The young man was taken from jail, beaten and shot before being hanged in front of a cheering crowd.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/9/2020
  

  The History of Slavery Remains With Us Today

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Two historians trace how law and institutions developed around anti-black ideology in the Americas.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/22/20
  

  A lost history, recovered: Faded records tell the story of school segregation in Virginia

  It has never been proved that the vanishing of the records, often undertaken by white officials, was intentional or coordinated, she said. Still, it had far-reaching consequences.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Video of the Week: Ken Burns on the ERA

  by Ken Burns

  Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/16/19
  

  ‘Like chasing shadows’: Uncovering Colonial Williamsburg’s LGBTQ history

  Researchers plan to comb through available court documents, particularly from trials for those prosecuted under sodomy laws, as well as uncover other clues that can be found in letters or in poetry and art.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It’s Only Been 96 Years.

  Virginia, soon to be under Democratic control, will likely be the 38th state to ratify the amendment. The Supreme Court could decide what happens next.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/6/19
  

  Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students beat and raped enslaved servants, historians say

  The secret history of two former University of Virginia students. 

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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."