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Amelia County Public Schools is a school district that serves Amelia County, Virginia in primary and secondary education. The district is headquartered in Amelia Courthouse. The district is led by superintendent is Dr. Lori Harper. The school district became desegregated in the 1960s after the Brown v. Board of Education supreme court case.
Prior to the integration of public schools in 1969, education for black students was sparse in rural Virginia. In 1865, widowed by her fallen husband, who had been a Union army officer, Samantha Jane Neil began educating freed slaves in Amelia County. [1]
Amelia County lies in the Piedmont region of Virginia, known for rolling hills and small ridges that lie between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Coastal Plain of Virginia. The county is bordered by the Appomattox River to the north and west, and Namozine Creek to the east. Amelia County is drained by tributaries of the Appomattox. The lowest ...
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Amelia County High School (ACHS), part of the Amelia County Public Schools system, is a public high school located in Amelia Courthouse, Virginia, United States. ACHS serves over 500 students grades 9–12 to citizens within Amelia County .
Location of Amelia County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Amelia County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Amelia County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Amelia Academy was founded in 1964 during Virginia's policy of massive resistance to court-mandated integration of public schools. [3] At this time most of the white students in Amelia County transferred to the new Amelia Academy as a segregation academy. [4]
Robert Russa Moton was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on August 26, 1867, and was raised in nearby Rice, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He was the grandson of an African chieftain, who had grown wealthy by engaging in slave trading. Later this chief was himself sold into slavery, leading to the establishment of Moton's family in the Americas ...