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Materials related to UVA mass shooting
Collection
Identifier: RG-50/6
Content Description
This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to...
Dates:
November 2022
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Commemorative soil
Record Group — Box: 1
Identifier: RG 38/5/1
Content Description
Commemorative vial of soil (2019; 0.15 cubic feet) from the groundbreaking of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers on Liberation and Freedom Day (3 March 2019).
Dates:
2019
Memory Marks podcast and transcripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16747
Content Description
This collection contains audio files and transcripts created by students as part of ENWR 2520: Writing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA in the Fall of 2021. Students were broken into four groups and each created a podcast episode and supplied the transcriptions. Students researched and reflected upon the history of slavery at the University of Virginia—including its connections to present day racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville and beyond. In addition to the four episodes,...
Dates:
2021
University of Virginia memorial for Civil War Confederate soldiers reproductions
Collection — Digital_container: 1
Identifier: RG-30/21/2
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of reproductions of bronze plaques that served as a memorial to University of Virginia alumni that died in the Civil War fighting for the Confederacy.
Dates:
Digitized: 2018