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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]
East Hill Cemetery, also known as Maryland Hill, Round Hill, Rooster Hill, and City Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Bristol, Virginia.It is an American Civil War-era cemetery established in 1857, with sections for Confederate soldiers and veterans as well as a small section for African American burials.
Location of Bristol in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol, 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 Bristol, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
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]
Belmead (Powhatan, Virginia) Beulah Normal and Theological Institute; Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia) Black Catholicism; Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia; Bloody Monday (Danville) George Boxley; Boydton Academic and Bible Institute; Boynton v. Virginia; Bruce Boynton; Britain, Virginia; Henry Box Brown; Buena ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
June 12, 2002, June 17, 2005, October 11, 2005 [2] The Bristol Commercial Historic District is a national historic district in Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia . The district encompasses 83 contributing buildings in the central business district of Bristol.
Douglass School is a historic school building for African-American children in Bristol, Virginia. The original section was built in 1921, with additions and alterations from about 1929 and 1963. It is a two-story, three-bay brick building with a flat roof. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]