Struggle, Sacrifice, and Scholarship – Black Education in Central Virginia, 1800-1922
Susie Gibson, Jeanes Supervisor, and her pupils, Bedford County, Virginia, c. 1915. The Jeanes Fund, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund, was established in 1907 by Pennsylvania Quaker Anna T. Jeanes. The fund provided supervisors for poor rural schools.
Exhibit Panels
The Slave-Holding Era
Civil War and Reconstruction
Self-Help and Advocacy
Philanthropy
Beginnings of Lynchburg Public Schools
Amherst County
Appomattox County
Bedford County
Campbell County
Virginia Theological Seminary and College
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Separate But Equal?