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Ora Scruggs McCoy is committed to preserving her family's farm and her community's rich African-American history.

Appomattox 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

Oliver White Hill served as counsel in the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954.

Richmond

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

A founding member of the Carter Family, a highly influential early country music group, Maybelle Addington Carter was a pioneering guitarist and performer.

Scott County

Throughout her career, Lucy Randolph Mason championed social reforms and legislation to help Southern workers.

Richmond

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

Buckingham County

Throughout her career as a teacher, Lillian Ward McDaniel advocated lifelong education and community service.

Richmond

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 student at Robert Russa Moton High School, John Stokes helped lead a strike by pupils to gain better education facilities, an act of defiance that contributed to the integration of public schools in the United States.

Prince Edward County