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The Jefferson School is a historic building in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was built to serve as a segregated high school for African-American students. The school, located on Commerce Street in the downtown Starr Hill neighborhood, was built in four sections starting in 1926, with additions made in 1938–39, 1958, and 1959.
Location of Charlottesville in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. The locations of ...
PVCC also opened a center in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, in January 2013. PVCC is housed on the ground floor in the historic Jefferson School building. The college offers day and evening classes at this facility and has introduced a new associate degree program in culinary arts hosted there since 2013. [5]
Jefferson School (Charlottesville, Virginia), a historic school building; Thomas Jefferson High School (Richmond, Virginia) Thomas Jefferson High School (Auburn, Washington) Jefferson High School (Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia) Jefferson High School (Jefferson, Wisconsin), whose old building is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
The AA Jefferson District is a district in the Virginia High School League. There are eight member schools. The District is named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, and member schools are clustered around Charlottesville. The District was created in the late 1990s from parts of the Valley and Battlefield Districts, as increased enrollment had forced ...
Charlottesville's public schools were segregated for decades. Despite the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the school board refused to integrate. A lawsuit representing black students from Burley High School and the Jefferson School led the city to undertake the strategy of Massive Resistance, closing the public schools to avoid integrating.
Pages in category "Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Martha Jefferson Historic District, also known as Locust Grove Addition, is a national historic district located at Charlottesville, Virginia.The district encompasses 154 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site (Maplewood Cemetery), and 1 contributing structure in a primarily residential section of the city of Charlottesville.