Landmarks

Each site also allows the teachers to explore important primary documents such as memoirs, court briefs, voice recordings, and related artifacts representing the complexities of this subject. Sessions with top scholars of school desegregation in Virginia along with these experiences allows the teachers to learn how to use various archives to research the history of school desegregation—many in their own districts, or online—and to develop effective lessons drawing from their experiences and findings.

The following five landmark sites are central to our program. Teachers virtually visit each landmark that tells the story of modern school desegregation and allows teachers to interact with individuals who experienced the struggle for racial equality firsthand, which is glossed over in the current K-12 curriculum. 
Virginia State University

  • Virginia State University (VSU) was established as a land-grant university for African Americans in 1882. Having served as a teachers’ training school prior to its land-grant status, its archives hold crucial records on teacher preparation program for African American teachers and professional lives of African American leaders and teachers since 1940s. The tour will be of the VSU campus including Vawter Hall, the second oldest building on the campus, constructed in 1908 and used as a science building and a dormitory for female students, as well as Azurest south, which was the home and work studio of one of the first black female architects in the nation. Following the tour, participants will engage with the VSU archives at Lindsay-Montague Hall.

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Robert Russa Moton Museum

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Virginia State University

Final Discussion

Why should we care about Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation in Virginia?

How did political and judicial changes affect the process of school desegregation in the 1970s and thereafter? 

What are the intended and unintended consequences of school integration? What are the legacies that we experience in the present day?