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This is a photograph of William Jasper. He was probably born in 1808 as a slave on the plantation of William Hayward Foote. According to his will, Foote decided to free his slaves on or soon after his death in 1846. At this time Jasper, in his…

Under the direction of the Laurel Grove School Association, and with several grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, an interdisciplinary team of community members, curriculum experts, teachers, historians, and museum curators…

These documents include registration documents for William Jasper, his wife Sarah, and his daughters Susan and Eliza, from 1853 and 1858. Especially after Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831, Virginia's free blacks faced copious laws restraining…

This is a summary of some recent re-thinking about the life and accomplishments of Booker T. Washington based on Robert J. Norrell's Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington.

One example of “the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who individually and collectively found ways to endure, fight back and occasionally define their own destinies…”

Olivia Cherry was born in 1926 and interviewed in 1995 at the…

This three-part timeline includes national, state (Virginia), and local/jasper-Walker family events. It is best used as a tool for teachers and students to see the interconnections between events in these three columns.

The three-part timeline has been simplified to make it easier for fourth grade students to use in their writing assignment

“Colored Fair Association” programs from 1916 and 1924 indicate that students could enter a variety of industrial and academic competitions for cash prizes. Contests in the domestic arts called for baskets, hats, photograph frames, embroidered…

“Colored Fair Association” programs from 1916 and 1924 indicate that students could enter a variety of industrial and academic competitions for cash prizes. Contests in the domestic arts called for baskets, hats, photograph frames, embroidered…

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s father, Joshua Dunbar, had escaped from a plantation in Kentucky via the Underground…