Before James Madison University there was the State Normal and Industrial School for Women. One of the first employees hired for the newly founded school was Page Mitchell. Mitchell worked as a cook at the Normal from 1909 to 1918 and became a pivotal figure at both...
The Jim Crow era in the United States lasted close to 100 years. A series of racial segregation laws were instated in the late 19th century, and African Americans found themselves denied basic rights such as voting, holding certain jobs, riding public transportation,...
Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1877 or 1879, Eugene Dickerson was the son of Wilson Dickerson and Fannie Reeves. In the 1880 Federal Census, his father is listed as a day laborer and his mother as a housekeeper. After attending the local African...
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