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William Jasper's wife Sarah had died, and in 1869, William married Georgianna Jackson at Alexandria's Theological Seminary. He listed his age as 58 and she listed hers as 34 on the marriage certificate. A year later the couple gave birth to…

In the Mount Vernon School District Laurel Grove was one of five black schools in 1890. The others were Gum Springs, Gunston, Springbank, and Woodlawn.

Both the state and local governments supported the public school system, but black schools were chronically underfunded. Compare this primitive, wooden African American school in South Boston, Virginia, to the photographs of nearby white schools in…

“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…

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, photographed by John Vachon, 1914-1975.

Students may notice an African American boy about middle school age, the "colored" sign indicating that only colored people can use…

Located on Lewinsville Road, McLean, VA.
In 1873 this one-room school was also used for community meetings and religious gatherings. School plans moved forward as the result of 30 acres of land by formerly enslaved and respected landowner, Alfred…

William Jasper and Thornton Gray were among the 226 Fairfax County blacks who registered. All 226 cast a ballot for a constitutional convention and all supported Radicals Orrin E. Hine, a Freedmen’s Bureau agent, and Linus M. Nickerson, another…

Useful to find the 13 acres of land that William Jasper bought in 1860. Also interesting to note that several of his neighbors were white landowners at this time.