Danville (City)

The Movement: Danville Civil Rights Demonstrations in 1963

On June 10, 1963, after months of peaceful protest of Danville’s segregationist policies and entrenched racism, the city's white police force, aided by deputized municipal…

Mary Ann Mason, They/ThemMay 29, 2024

Virginia Authors

Uncovering Homegrown Histories During Picture Book Month

From The Wreck of the Old 97 by Clara G. Fountain (Womack Press, Danville, Va., 1976) Libraries and schools across the world celebrate Picture Book…

Rebecca SchneiderNovember 20, 2019

Education & Programming Newspapers

Woe Unto Him: Anti-Liquor on Virginia Chronicle & Say Goodbye to Booze tonight at the LVA

In conjunction with the Library of Virginia’s current exhibition, Teetotalers & Moonshiners: Prohibition in Virginia, the Virginia Newspaper Project has made its sole issue of…

Kelley EwingMay 5, 2017

Newspapers

Wendell Scott: Racing’s Minority of One

"I was a race driver before I ever hit the track,” said Wendell Scott, the first African American to race NASCAR’s Grand National circuit, in a…

Kelley EwingFebruary 28, 2017

Newspapers

Be True to Your School

Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…

Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015

Archives Education & Programming

The Movement: Danville Civil Rights Demonstrations in 1963

Uncovering Homegrown Histories During Picture Book Month

Woe Unto Him: Anti-Liquor on Virginia Chronicle & Say Goodbye to Booze tonight at the LVA

Wendell Scott: Racing’s Minority of One

Be True to Your School

"There is yet enough left of the old barbarism of slavery": Violence in Post-Emancipation Virginia

Southside Burning!: Reformatted Recordings Preserve Historic Testimony

Violence in Danville: Preservation of a Civil Rights Legacy