Browse Items (53 total)
- Tags: Civil Rights and Reform
Percy Casino Corbin
Civil rights leader Percy Casino Corbin strove to bring equality to the school system in Pulaski, Virginia.
Pulaski County
Aline Black
Aline Black was a plaintiff in a case challenging the disparate pay of African American and white teachers in Norfolk.
Norfolk
Oliver White Hill
Oliver White Hill served as counsel in the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954.
Richmond
Evelyn Butts
Evelyn Thomas Butts led a successful challenge of Virginia’s poll tax all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
Norfolk
Pauline Adams
Taking a militant approach to the campaign for woman suffrage, Pauline Adams chose to go to prison for her political beliefs.
Norfolk
Themes: Civil Rights and Reform
Sara Bagby
With "a decided taste for freedom," Sara Lucy Bagby was embroiled in a celebrated legal case that tested the infamous Fugitive Slave Act during the secession crisis.
Wheeling
Themes: Civil Rights and Reform
Joseph Thomas Newsome
A leading figure in Newport News, Joseph Thomas Newsome struggled to bring education and voting rights to the African American community.
Newport News
Dorothy Hamm
Through legal and political actions, civil rights activist Dorothy Bigelow Hamm fought for African American equality.
Caroline and Arlington Counties
Henry Marsh III
Throughout his law career and the public offices he has held, Henry L. Marsh has committed his life to bringing equal rights and opportunities to African Americans.
Richmond
Henry "Box" Brown
After his family was suddenly sold out of the state in 1848, he shipped himself in a wooden crate to freedom in 1849.
Richmond