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The Racial Integrity Act was introduced in 1924 in the General Assembly as Senate Bill No. 219, then as House Bill No. 311. When the act was passed, it prohibited interracial marriage and defined a white person as someone "who has no trace whatsoever…

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Black men gained the right to vote when the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1870. Later in the 19th century, white men in Virginia passed laws requiring literacy tests or payment of poll taxes that made it more…

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“Safety is better than compensation” it a sentiment which echoes—both explicitly and implicitly—through the wording of these safety posters (see link below to view additional images). In these posters, cartoon workers are eaten by machines and lose…

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Harry Flood Byrd served as governor of Virginia from 1926 to 1930 and as a United States senator from 1933 to 1965. Byrd headed a political organization, known as the Byrd Organization, that emphasized small government and fiscal conservatism. He…

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After the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, Virginia's white political leaders at the state and local levels led a Massive Resistance movement,…

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On May 17, 1954, after nearly two decades of legal challenges against racial segregation in public schools and higher education, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that school segregation was…

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On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Virginia's school system had been segregated since it was established in 1870, and…

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On May 17, 1954, after nearly two decades of legal challenges against racial segregation in public schools and higher education, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that school segregation was…

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Waterways provided the people of the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads regions with access to food, supplies, and transport long before English colonists arrived in 1607. As English settlements displaced and removed Indigenous people from the land near…

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After the Great Depression, difficult economic times led to an increase in work strikes, such as the one in this image. In an effort to preserve individual employee rights in a town largely controlled by industry, Hopewell plant workers joined labor…
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