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List of Members, Officers, and Employees of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia
This page of the official roster of the convention contains the names of twenty-three of the 105 delegates, how many days each attended during the last two months that it met, and how much payment they were due for their service.
Location of Negro Areas, Bartholomew, 1946
Gray areas consisting of 25 to 60 percent Negroes, Black areas consisting of 60 percent or more Negroes.
Lorenzo Ivy excerpt from Hampton and Its Students (1874).
Hampton Institute student and former slave Lorenzo Ivy tells a story about the relationship between his family, his former master, and the Freedmen's Bureau after emancipation.
Lorenzo Ivy Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Lorenzo L. Ivy was born in Pittsylvania County at the end of the Civil War. He described the cruel treatment of his enslaved family members and the slave trade. He attended Hampton with Booker T. Washington and graduated in 1875.
Main Building and President's House, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The main building for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institution (as Virginia State University was then named) opened in 1888, five years after the school was established. It contained offices, classrooms, dormitories, a library, museum, and chapel,…
Map of Richmond, Department of Public Works, 1923
"Red indicates location of colored population."
