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The first twenty African slaves from Angola landed in Virginia in 1619 on a Portuguese slave ship. [5] Lynchings, racial segregation and white supremacy were prevalent in Virginia. [6] The first African slaves arrived in the British colony Jamestown, Virginia and were then bought by English colonists. [7]
George Freeman Bragg, editor of the Virginia Lancet. Front page of the Richmond Planet from 1902. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Virginia. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in the state was The True Southerner, in 1865. [1]
This is a list of some of the 5,000 Rosenwald Schools built across the South from Texas to Virginia and from Florida to Oklahoma. There once were 5,000 or so Rosenwald Schools in the United States, primarily serving Black Americans. At least 58 of these schools are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Notable examples listed ...
Lincoln Heights (mostly burned down in September 2022 fire; parts of Weed have some Black residents but fewer compared to mid-20th century when most of the Black community worked on the railroads). Mono Lake and nearby Bishop, Mammoth Lakes and Round Valley developed large Black percentages near the NV state line.
Springfield was founded in 1847 around the Orange and Alexandria Railroad's Daingerfield Station; this is today the Backlick Road Virginia Railway Express station, located off Backlick Road. The area was named for "Springfield Farm", owned by Henry Daingerfield, an Alexandria businessman who sat on the railroad's board of directors.
John R. Lewis High School is a public high school in Springfield, Virginia.It is a part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) and opened in 1958. The school was originally named Robert E. Lee High School (Lee High School) after Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, but starting at the beginning of the 2020–2021 school year it was renamed John R. Lewis High School after John Lewis, the ...
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Sydenstricker School, also known as Pohick School #8 and Upper Pohick Community League Hall (since 1948), is a historic one-room school located at Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is a one-story, front-gabled structure, covered in weatherboard, painted red with white trim, and topped with a metal roof.