But a state commission planning a slave emancipation monument on Richmond’s Brown ... the couple mounted a legal challenge that led to a landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme court ruling that abolished ...

Campbell, who was instrumental in forming the Richmond Slave Trail, is a seventh-generation ... schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954.

They have since made many trips to Wythe, exploring landmarks, churches, cemeteries and records. “A lot of things surprised me,” Jones said. “I didn’t know they stacked bodies on top of ...

In 1879, the Anglican Cathedral of Christ’s Church was constructed on the exact spot where the slave trade had operated. Its altar was placed precisely where slaves were once whipped and then ...

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Born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, Mason achieved unprecedented financial success that enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a ...