African Americans -- Education
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bluestone Baptist Association and Harmony Baptist Association pamphlet collection
Hampton Institute student photograph album
Jackson P. Burley High School flag
Piney Pond School photograph
This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."
Series 1. MSS 38-207 Papers of Philip Alexander Bruce, 1920-1922, 1896
The collection contains the typescript of his history of the University of Virginia together with some chapters from his writings on Thomas Jefferson and on the education of African-Americans. Bruce was aligned with post civil war Jim Crow racism.
Also included are 1896 wedding vows of Philip Alexander Bruce and his wife Elizabeth Tunstall Taylor Newton Bruce.