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History Blog

Great Lives Series: Marian Anderson
LibraryPoint Blog, African American, Great Lives series, Music, Virginia Johnson, History Blog
02/05/2010 - 6:35am

In 1939, talented singer Marian Anderson was denied the spotlight at the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall on account of her race. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt quickly saw to it that she had another venue--the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On Easter Sunday, a crowd of 75,000 listened to her in person, and her music was carried on the radio and heard by many more. After the concert, Marian Anderson went on to break more racial barriers in the entertainment industry and became a voice of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Great Lives Series: Booker T. Washington
LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, 20th century, African American, Autobiography and Biography, Education, Great Lives series, Reconstruction era, Slavery, Virginia History, Virginia Johnson, History Blog
02/03/2010 - 8:55am

Born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia, Booker T. (Taliaferro) Washington went on to become a nationally-known leader and educator. He shared his educational philosophy with U.S. presidents and served as the first president of Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University.

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Great Lives Series: Blackbeard
LibraryPoint Blog, 18th century, Chesapeake Bay, Great Lives series, Pirates, Virginia History, History Blog
01/27/2010 - 11:07am

Professor Carter L. Hudgins of UMW's Department of History and American Studies will give a free lecture on Blackbeard, scourge of the Chesapeake Bay and Caribbean, on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Dodd Auditorium.  The talk is part of the university's Great Lives Lecture Series.

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Shiloh Cemetery Graves
19th century, 20th century, African American, African Americans, Cemeteries, Fredericksburg (Va.), Genealogy, History Feature Articles, Robert Hodge, Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site), Shiloh Baptist Church (Old site), History Blog
01/11/2010 - 9:15am
A cemetery fence

Robert Hodge reported in 1981 that this is from a report prepared by a students of Germanna Community College in circa 1979. Report is not verified and was unsigned. Indeed, there is a variation in the name Bumbrey - represented as Bumbray here, but there are stones with Bumbrey in the cemetery. The original list was accompanied by the following statements:

"The following list of names is a list of people buried in an all black cemetery in the City of Fredericksburg at the corner of Monument Avenue and Littlepage Street.

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