Browse Items (42 total)
- Collection: Postwar United States
Alice Jackson Stuart
By applying to the University of Virginia to pursue graduate studies, Alice Jackson challenged Virginia's laws of segregation.
Richmond
Wyatt Tee Walker
A nationally celebrated Baptist minister, Wyatt Tee Walker was a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement.
Petersburg
Olivia Ferguson McQueen
Civil rights pioneer Olivia Ferguson McQueen successfully challenged school segregation in 1959, but did not receive her diploma for another fifty-four years.
Charlottesville
Mildred Delores Jeter Loving
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
Christine Herter Kendall
An accomplished artist and musician, Christine Herter Kendall cofounded the Garth Newel Music Center in Bath County.
Bath County
Earl Francis Lloyd
Earl Lloyd was the first African American to play in the NBA and the league’s first African-American assistant coach.
Alexandria
Elizabeth Lee "Betty" Masters
A trailblazer for women in the field of photojournalism, Betty Masters was the first female photographer hired by the Roanoke Times.
Salem
Edwilda Gustava Allen Isaac
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
Leonard Muse
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
Louise Harrison McCraw
Author Louise Harrison McCraw cofounded the Braille Circulating Library to meet the needs of an underserved population.
Buckingham County