Ku Klux Klan Parade in Richmond, Va.,
description: Wearing white robes and hoods, members of the Ku Klux Klan, a right-wing extremist organization, parade on Grace Street in Richmond circa 1925. This photograph was taken at the intersection of Grace and Fifth streets, just a few blocks from the Virginia State Capitol.
creator: Dementi Studio, Richmond
source: The Valentine
date: c. 1925
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Ku Klux Klan in Virginia, Encyclopedia Virginia Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940, VCU Libraries The Ku Klux Klan and Christian Churches, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library Backlash to Reform: Hatred and Extremism, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Address by Ethel Baskervill, Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, January 8, 1932
description: Transcription: Woman’s Exchange January 8, 1932 The Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work is the first woman’s shop established in Richmond which has been in continuous operation for almost fifty years. It was established in 1883 to assist ladies who, in 1883, felt their privacy would be violated and their pride tarnished if the public knew they were forced to work for money. Now we know that what a woman can do is her greatest ornament and that she always consults her dignity by doing it. Now we have meetings where Consignors and Board Members discuss every phase of our mutual business. There are among the consignors some of your best friends and mine. They are from the best levels of our citizenship – much respected and self respecting women. Without exception they are women who cannot go out into active business. Most of them have children or invalids at home who cannot do without them, or perhaps their husbands have had bad luck and cannot make ends meet. They show a notable gallantry by throwing their strength into helping their family to be self supporting upstanding citizens. The Exchange is not a charity, - it is a philanthropy. We simply give women a chance to help themselves. As a shop we are obliged to meet tremendous and increasing competition. We try to meet it by defeating it. We try to give honest value, courteous and efficient service and the very best quality in town. In our foods we tolerate no substitute for the best materials. 2 We have lately put on a second delivery and we send to Westhampton and to Ginter Park. We are constantly trying to introduce novelties in all our departments. We have many services which the public does not always realize. We make aspics and desert to order. We mend fine bead bags and wash and darn delicate laces and old lace curtains. We restore antique, painted trays. We print stationery, --just like you get from Peru, Indiana, at the same price, - and more promptly. We take for sale some young woman’s treasured bit of glo…
creator: Baskervill, Ethel
source: MSC0037-Baskervill, The Valentine
date: 1932 January 8
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Sander, K. W. (1998). The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones. Federation of Woman's Exchanges Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Influenza virus vaccines for Richmond region
description: After the influenza virus was finally identified in 1933, researchers immediately started to develop a vaccine. The first flu vaccine was approved for U.S. military use in 1945 and for civilian use in 1946. Unfortunately, the flu has several types, and many types come in multiple strains—each of which has to be included in a vaccine to provide protection. Each year, scientists make their best prediction as to which flu variants will circulate that year and prepare a vaccine that treats a combination of the most likely strains. Sometimes the match is a good one, but sometimes unexpected strains mean the vaccine is less effective. Immunity also wears off and different strains emerge—which is why it’s important to get a flu shot every year.
creator: Clark, Wallace Huey (photographer).
source: V.85.37.2477, Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, The Valentine
date: 1976 September 30
contributor: The Valentine
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Virginia Home for Incurables, W. Broad and Robinson streets, Richmond, Virginia
description: In 1894, Mary Tinsley Greenhow, who as a teenager was paralyzed during a horse riding accident, founded the Virginia Home for Incurables. Disabled Richmonders needing life-long care lived at the home near Capitol Square. In 1898, the home moved to W. Broad and Robinson streets, across from the future site of the Science Museum of Virginia. It moved to its present location on Hampton Street in Byrd Park in 1930. The name shortened to The Virginia Home in 1963. Today, Virginia residents at least 18 years of age with an irreversible physical disability can apply for residence. The Virginia Home provides nursing and medical care, therapy, counseling services, job and recreational opportunities to its residents.
creator: Cook, Huestis P. (likely photographer)
source: Cook Collection, The Valentine,
date: c. 1900
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

“Open-air” classroom at Moore Street School, 1113 W. Moore Street, Richmond, Va.
description: In the early-20th century, Europe and the U.S. saw the rise of “open air” schools intended to create healthy environments to combat tuberculosis using the principles of sanatoria. Sometimes purpose-built, and sometimes converted spaces, open air schools provided fresh air and extra nutrition for at-risk youth. In the May 1917 issue of The Modern City, John H. Ferguson wrote about Richmond’s 16 open air schools: “Each school has a capacity of 20 children; and each one is always crowded, with a long waiting list. The children are selected from the entire public school system of the city by the school physician…Few of these children have tuberculosis even in its non-communicative forms, but they are all below par, physically, just in the right receptive condition to be fertile soil for the development of the disease.” A Richmond Times-Dispatch notice of March 2, 1915 (p. 7) noted fundraising activities of "prominent society women" in support of the open-air schools. These women served as tearoom hostesses in the palm garden of the Jefferson Hotel. Indoor golf was a popular activity for which "two handsome silver cups" were to be awarded at the conclusion of the season.
creator: Cook, Huestis P. (photographer)
source: Cook 1657, Cook Collection, The Valentine
date: 1916
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Tuberculosis, Social Welfare History Project Tuberculosis, Social Welfare History Image Portal Carr, Laura (2017). Open air schools: The fight against tuberculosis. The Valentine (blog) Open-Air Schools. Bulletin 1916, No. 23. Bureau of Education. Department of the Interior. via ERIC Goldsberry collection of open-air school photographs, Library of Congress 1930s: Open-Air Schools, Retronaut Does Cold Weather Sharpen a Schoolboy's Wits? The Scrap Book, 1908. pp. 883-884. via HathiTrust.org Nierenberg, A. (2019 October 27). Classrooms without walls and hopefully covid. New York Times.

Anti-tuberculosis play at Lyric Theatre, 901 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va.
description: French bacteriologists Albert Calmette (1863–1933) and Camille Guérin (1872–1961) finalized the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis in 1921. The vaccine remains the only tuberculosis vaccine in use today. While not perfect, it is one of the most widely used vaccines and reaches more than 80 percent of all children in countries where the disease is common. The BCG vaccine was a major weapon in public health efforts to fight tuberculosis—an ongoing battle dramatized by Richmond children in this 1921 play. In this panoramic photograph, a "Modern Health Crusader" brandishes a sword shaped like the double-barred cross that was the emblem of the crusade. The crusader carries a "Modern Health Crusader" shield and fights "Tuberculosis" who is dressed all in black. The Modern Health Crusaders campaign was devised by Charles De Forest of the National Tuberculosis Association.
creator: Cook, Huestis P. (photographer)
source: Cook Collection, The Valentine
date: 1921
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Chores of Modern Health Crusaders, Social Welfare History Image Portal The Modern Health Crusade. A National Program of Health Instruction in Schools, Internet Archive Stamping out tuberculosis with Christmas Seals. University of Virginia. Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Tuberculosis, Social Welfare History Project

Richmond Male Orphan Society, Richmond, Va.
description: Boys standing outside the Richmond Male Orphan Society at Amelia and Meadow Streets, Richmond, Va. The Richmond Male Orphan Society began in 1846 when the director of the Female Humane Association was approached by a homeless boy begging for coins. Recognizing the city’s need for a boy’s home, concerned residents formed the Richmond Male Orphan Society in Church Hill. It made various moves and is now located in western Henrico County. The organization’s name has evolved over time to the Richmond Home for Boys and then the Virginia Home for Boys. When it began to house girls in 2004, it was renamed the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls. Among its services are foster care, alternative education, independent living services and psychiatric and medical care.
creator: Cook, Huestis P., likely
source: Cook Collection, The Valentine
date: c. 1890
contributor: The Valentine
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Bethany Home for Friendless Children, Chesterfield, VA
description: Lucy and J. R. F. Burroughs founded the Bethany Home for Friendless Children in 1894. The childless couple established the orphanage on their 165-acre farm, located near Bon Air in Chesterfield County. Incorporated in 1898, Bethany Home had no endowment and operated completely through donations. Bethany Home closed in the 1940s.
creator: Cook, Huestis P., photographer
source: Cook Collection, The Valentine
date: 1914 June 10
contributor: The Valentine
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The Defenders News and Views [Newsletter]
description: Publication of The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, a grassroots political organization dedicated to preserving strict racial segregation in Virginia's public schools. The group was established in Petersburg in October 1954 following the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Chapters of the group opened across the Commonwealth of Virginia. This newsletter is a folded sheet, two pages printed on both sides. The text header on the front page says, "The Defenders News and Views/Published by Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties/405-A East Franklin Street." This document reports on the annual meeting of the Defenders that was held on November 4, 1959 in Richmond, Va. During this meeting a panel of representatives from private schools (identified as "those schools which have been established for parents who do not want their children to attend the integrated public schools") spoke. Members of the panel: J. Barrye Wall, Prince Edward County Jack Crouse, Warren County Frank R. Ford, Norfolk H. P. Paden, Arlington Barry Marshall, Charlottesville Excerpt: "White citizens of Prince Edward County offered to assist the Negroes to set up schools for their children, through use of the scholarship grants and surplus property laws....Mr. Wall emphasized the fact that the NAACP is interested only in integration - not education. Their program is to integrate the schools first, then churches, hotels and every phase of society. Education in Virginia today, he stated, is controlled by the NAACP, and complete integration by 1963 is the goal."
creator: Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties
source: V.2011.02.01., The Valentine
date: 1959 October - November
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, Encyclopedia Virginia Freedom Now Project, VCU Libraries Massive Resistance, Encyclopedia Virginia In Defense of Prince Edward County of Virginia. Speech of Hon. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, May 17, 1961, Social Welfare History Image Portal

City Home, Richmond, VA
description: City Home, an almshouse located at 210 Hospital Street, Richmond, VA. Shown here circa 1960. Richmond’s Committee for the Relief of the Poor managed white and black almshouses, a soup kitchen, a hospital and other health and social services. Construction of a new white almshouse on Hospital Street finished in 1860. During the Civil War, the building served as a Confederate hospital. Afterwards, it was briefly a home for the Virginia Military Institute and then resumed its original purpose. By the early 20th century, this almshouse was called the City Home. In 1959, the City Home became the Richmond Nursing Home, which operated until 1972. Today, the complex has been repurposed as low income apartments for seniors.
creator: Dulaney
source: The Valentine
date: c. 1960
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Committee on Relief of the Poor, Richmond VA, Social Welfare History Image Portal Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach, The Valentine

Young Women's Christian Association button
description: Pinback button The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) first met in New York City in 1858. While based in Christianity, the YWCA was more focused on social issues, initially affordable housing for working women. It later was active in the labor union movement and supporting race relations. The YWCA of Richmond, the South’s oldest chapter, formed in 1887 and soon opened a boarding house. It later established a day nursery, kindergarten, gymnasium and Travelers Aid Society. The Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the Richmond YWCA, found in 1912, was one of the first African-American chapters in the United States. Today, the YWCA of Richmond educates about domestic and sexual violence. It operates women’s emergency shelters and a child development center.
creator: Ehrman
source: The Valentine (Gift of the Estate of Miss Rosa B. Hexter)
date: 1916
contributor: The Valentine
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Committee on Relief of the Poor, Richmond VA, 1902
description: Richmond’s Committee for the Relief of the Poor managed white and black almshouses, a soup kitchen, a hospital and other health and social services. Construction of a new white almshouse on Hospital Street finished in 1860. During the Civil War, the building served as a Confederate hospital. Afterwards, it was briefly a home for the Virginia Military Institute and then resumed its original purpose. By the early 20th century, this almshouse was called the City Home. In 1959, the City Home became the Richmond Nursing Home, which operated until 1972. Today, the complex has been repurposed as low income apartments for seniors.
creator: Foster, photographer
source: The Valentine (Gift of Miss Emily S. Thomason)
date: 1902
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: City Home, Richmond, VA, Social Welfare History Image Portal Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach, The Valentine

Cholera Parade Float at Adventure Days, Richmond, Va.
description: This parade float from Richmond’s Adventure Days (1929) served as a public health reminder of cholera, noting “Richmonders Died at the Average Age of 24 in 1872.”
creator: Gray, W. Palmer (photographer).
source: V.45.15.1024, W. Palmer Gray Collection, The Valentine
date: 1929
contributor: The Valentine
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Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans, St. Paul and Charity streets, Richmond, Virginia
description: Lucy Goode Brooks (1818–1900) and members of the Ladies Sewing Circle for Charitable Work established the Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans in 1871. These formerly enslaved women enlisted the support of the Cedar Creek Meeting Society of Friends (Quakers) to found a home for orphaned and abandoned African-American children. Brooks’s activism came from her experience losing one of her children, who was sold before the Civil War. The Friends Asylum opened an orphanage at St. Paul and Charity streets in Jackson Ward. Today, the organization is known as FRIENDS Association for Children. It provides childcare, enrichment programs, support and educational services to low-income families.
creator: Gray, W. Palmer, photographer
source: The Valentine
date: c. 1920
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Louise Goode Brooks (1818 - 1900), John T. Kneebone, The Library of Virginia. Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach, The Valentine Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia at its Session of 1871-'72, Chap. 362, p.454. Charter and By-laws of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond, Va. Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, Library of Virginia.

As soon as I find a Woman Suffragist, Who is not afraid of Mice... [anti-suffrage postcard]
description: Anti-suffrage postcard. The front has gold lettering, with a different color for each capital letter, green, purple, red, blue, orange. Silhouettes of three mice appear at the top of the card. Text: "As soon as I find a / Woman / Suffragist, / Who is not afraid / of Mice / I'll join the / procession / and cry ---- / 'Votes for / Women'!"
creator: J. C. Yatman, New York
source: I.V. 76.195.14, The Valentine
date: 1910
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Anti-suffrage, Social Welfare History Image Portal Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project

I've had my chest x-ray [pinback button]
description: "I've Had My Chest X-Ray" button with red double-bar cross that was the emblem of the National Tuberculosis Association anti-TB crusade. People can be exposed to tuberculosis bacteria and become infected. Some who are infected go on to develop active TB disease; those who do not are said to have latent infection. Latent infection can be found through a skin test or a blood test; however, a chest x-ray and laboratory testing of a mucus sample are needed to determine if someone has active TB disease. In 1946, the Richmond Health Department worked with medical and civic organizations to launch the city’s first chest x-ray campaign.
creator: L. J. Imber Co.
source: V.83.158.20, The Valentine
contributor: The Valentine
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Candlelight AIDS memorial vigil on E. Grace Street, from St. Paul's Episcopal Church to Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.
description: In 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA identified a new disease that, among its many signs, severely weakened the immune system. Named acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), this disease was initially seen among gay men in large cities. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), identified in 1985, is transmitted through blood, genital fluids (such as semen) and breastmilk. The earliest confirmed case of AIDS in the U.S. was in 1968, with the first case in Virginia reported in 1982. With no known cure, HIV/AIDS was initially a death sentence for those infected. Participants in this 1987 candlelight AIDS memorial vigil walked down E. Grace Street from St. Paul's Episcopal Churh to Capitol Square in Richmond, Va.
creator: Pennell, Don (photographer)
source: V.88.68.144, Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, The Valentine
date: 1987 May 25
contributor: The Valentine
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Nurse Lucille Meador at Beth Sholom Home of Virginia
description: Nurse Lucille Meador walks through the snow wearing snowshoes at the Beth Sholom Home of Virginia, 5729 Fitzhugh Avenue, Henrico County, Virginia The Beth Sholom Home of Virginia opened in 1945 as Virginia’s first Jewish nursing home. Originally located in the Fan District, the home moved to Fitzhugh Avenue in 1958 before relocating to Henrico’s Short Pump. During the 2000s, the home expanded its services to include a rehabilitation clinic and Beth Sholom Garden, Virginia’s first Jewish assisted living facility.
creator: Pennell, Don, photographer
source: Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, The Valentine
date: 1966 January 30
contributor: The Valentine
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Exchange for Woman's Work. Fourth Annual Report, 1887. [exceprt]
description: Report by Mrs. W. T. Richardson, recording secretary for the Exchange for Woman's Work. This excerpt (pp. 9 - 14) is taken from the Fourth Annual Report of the Exchange, 1887. Text (excerpt) Annual Report. The Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work has now completed its fourth year. During the past twelve months, 5,279 articles have been place on sale, representing the handiwork of 400 women, 3,790 of these consignments were sold, realizing the sum of $3,375, which amount, less the commission of ten per cent, was paid to the consignors. Every article deposited for sale, however simple, must be the best of its kind. To reach and adhere to this standard is the persistent aim of the Board of Managers. They are gratified to observe a steady advance in the character and variety of the work offered. The Exchange is thus proving a school p.10 for the education of workers—developing the artistic instinct, correcting defects of design and execution, etc., --while it fosters a spirit of industry, energy and independence, and affords to all, even the aged and the invalid, an opportunity to turn to pecuniary advantage whatever talent they possess, however homely it may be…. We enter upon our fifth year with courage and hope—in any event, resting upon the promise that our work shall be accepted according to what we have, and not according to what we have not. Respectfully submitted, Mrs. W. T. Richardson, Recording Secretary.
creator: Richardson, W. T. (Mrs.)
source: MSC0037-AnnualReport, The Valentine
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Sander, K. W. (1998). The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones. Federation of Woman's Exchanges Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Typhoid fever study, Richmond, Va. [lantern slide]
description: Lantern slide. Image taken in Richmond, Va in 1907. The Richmond Health Department formed in 1906. One of its early initiatives (1907) was to investigate 433 cases of typhoid fever, creating the city’s first systematic study of infectious disease. In 1908, Dr. Ernest C. Levy (1868–1938), head of the Richmond Health Department, published the survey findings in The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Levy discussed the generally declining rate of typhoid fever cases in Richmond from 1880 to 1907 but noted several outbreaks of the disease in 1881, 1884 and 1900. While one cluster of outbreaks in Church Hill was determined to come from a typhoid-infected confectioner, a larger proportion of cases were from properties on the outskirts of the city that generally used well water and lacked sewage systems.
creator: Richmond Health Department
source: V.81.99.08, The Valentine
date: 1907
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Levy, E. C. and Freeman, A. W. (1908). Certain conclusions concerning typhoid fever in the south, as deduced from a study of typhoid fever in Richmond Virginia. The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, VII (5), November 1908, 315-338. Carr, Laura (2014).Typhoid fever! The Valentine (blog). Hughes, Megan (2018). Typhoid fever! The Valentine (blog). Society for the Betterment of Housing and Living Conditions in Richmond, Virginia (1913). Report on housing and living conditions in the neglected sections of Richmond, Virginia.

Mobilizing for Busing Protest, Richmond, Va.
description: Black and white photograph of people preparing for an anti-busing demonstration. A woman stands holding an American flag, and a man standing with her wears a hand-lettered anti-busing sign, "Forced bussing & consolidation of schools will lead to either [arrow points to a Nazi swastika] or [arrow points to Communist red star and a hammer and sickle.]" Other people wearing anti-busing signs mill about in front of the Richmond Coliseum. One woman's sign reads, "I'm not fussing but I will not bus. No! Merhige No!"
creator: Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
source: P.74.11.18o, The Valentine
date: 1972 February 10
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Busing, Social Welfare History Image Portal 3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest, The New York Times, February 18, 1972. Pratt, Robert A. The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972)

Anti-Busing Motorcade in Washington, D.C., February 1972
description: Black and white photograph of a Richmond-based anti-busing motorcade passing through Washington, D.C. on 2nd Street behind the U.S. Supreme Court building. A policeman walks beside two cars. On February 17, 1972, nearly 3,300 cars traveled in a motorcade from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, DC. Despite snow, the protesters made a symbolic journey to Capitol Hill to voice their opposition to Judge Robert Merihge's ruling (Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia) that public schools in Richmond, Henrico County, and Chesterfield County must be consolidated. At that time, Richmond public schools were 70 per cent black while those of the two counties were about 90 per cent white. Cars in the motorcade carried red and white signs reading “Help Save Freedom” and imprinted with a picture of a little red schoolhouse.
creator: Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
source: P.74.11.18m, The Valentine
date: 1972 February 17
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: 3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest, The New York Times, February 18, 1972. Pratt, Robert A. The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972) Busing, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Anti-School Busing Protest, February 1972
description: Black and white photograph of a man and a woman in a car during an anti-busing motorcade to Washington, D.C. The car is driving past the U.S. Supreme Court building and has a poster taped to the driver's side door of the car. The poster is of "The Little Red School House" used as a logo by Save Our Neighborhood Schools, Inc. with the words, "Help / Save Freedom." The man leans his head out the window and smiles. On February 17, 1972, nearly 3,300 cars traveled in a motorcade from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, DC. Despite snow, the protesters made a symbolic journey to Capitol Hill to voice their opposition to Judge Robert Merihge's ruling (Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia) that public schools in Richmond, Henrico County, and Chesterfield County must be consolidated. At that time, Richmond public schools were 70 percent black while those of the two counties were about 90 per cent white. Cars in the motorcade carried red and white signs reading “Help Save Freedom” and imprinted with a picture of a little red schoolhouse.
creator: Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
source: P.74.11.18n, The Valentine
date: 1972 February 17
contributor: The Valentine
rights: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
relation: Learn more: 3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest, The New York Times, February 18, 1972. Pratt, Robert A. The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972) Busing, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Female Humane Society, Richmond, Virginia
description: The Memorial Foundation for Children’s story began in 1805, when a homeless girl supposedly presented herself at the door of Jean Moncure Wood, wife of Governor James E. Wood. Realizing that the city lacked a shelter for needy girls, Mrs. Wood worked to establish the Female Humane Association in 1807. The Association was incorporated in 1811 and built its first shelter on the corner of St. John's and Charity streets in Richmond. It was later called the Memorial Home for Girls (1921), the Memorial Foundation (1946), and then the Memorial Foundation for Children (1962). Throughout its history, the organization has provided shelter to homeless children, guidance and psychological services, and daycare. In 1972, the foundation shifted from direct care to giving financial assistance to other local charities.
creator: Scott, Mary Wingfield (photographer)
source: The Valentine
date: c. 1940
contributor: The Valentine
rights: This object has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the object by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the digital object, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the item available. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
relation: Learn more: Constitution and By-Laws of the Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond, Adopted April 1, 1833. HathiTrust.org Memorial Foundation for Children. Records, 1811-2006, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia (finding aid) "The Noble Asylum" Richmond Enquirer, Volume 40, Number 7, 2 June 1843 (p. 3 col. 2). Virginia Chronicle.

Richmond Community Fund membership button
description: Pinback button In 1924, the Richmond Area Community Council created the Community Fund, later known as the Richmond Area Community Chest. This trust centralized fundraising and fund distribution to the Council’s more than thirty member organizations.
creator: unknown
source: The Valentine (Gift of Eloise Robinson Blackwell)
date: c. 1935
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach, The Valentine