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Educator, activist, and basketball pioneer Edwin B. Henderson dedicated his life to serving the African-American community through sports in education and fighting racial discrimination.

Fairfax County

A schoolteacher and military veteran, Calvin C. Green filed a lawsuit in 1965 to compel New Kent County to desegregate its public schools.

New Kent County

Author Louise Harrison McCraw cofounded the Braille Circulating Library to meet the needs of an underserved population.

Buckingham County

For more than 60 years, pharmacist Leonard Muse has been a community leader in the historically African-American neighborhood of Nauck in Arlington County.

Arlington County

As a teenager, Edwilda Allen Isaac helped lead a walkout of students from R. R. Moton High School that contributed to ending school segregation in the United States.

Farmville

A trailblazer for women in the field of photojournalism, Betty Masters was the first female photographer hired by the Roanoke Times.

Salem

Earl Lloyd was the first African American to play in the NBA and the league’s first African-American assistant coach.

Alexandria

An accomplished artist and musician, Christine Herter Kendall cofounded the Garth Newel Music Center in Bath County.

Bath County

As a plaintiff in the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, Mildred Jeter Loving helped legalize interracial marriage in Virginia and the United States.

Caroline County

Civil rights pioneer Olivia Ferguson McQueen successfully challenged school segregation in 1959, but did not receive her diploma for another fifty-four years.

Charlottesville