United States – Virginia
William H. Brisby (1831-1916)
William Henry Brisby was born free in New Kent County, Virginia in 1831 and lived on 32 acres of land...
First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia (1780- )
The First Baptist Church, founded in 1780 by Joshua Morris, emerged in the aftermath of the Great Awakening religious revival...
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926-2016 )
U.S. Ambassador Orison Rudolph Aggrey was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of James Emman Kwegyir, an African immigrant...
Sally Hemings (1773-1835)
Sally Hemings was born into slavery in Virginia, probably at Guinea Plantation in Cumberland County, the youngest of six children...
John J. Jasper (1812-1901)
Reverend John Jasper is arguably one of the most famous black ministers of nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia, who gained popularity for...
Jordan Hatcher Case (1852)
Jordan Hatcher was a seventeen-year-old enslaved tobacco worker in Richmond, Virginia, who in 1852 rose from obscurity to notoriety when...
Freedom Rides (1961)
Following the momentum of student-led sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennesssee in early 1960, an interracial group of...
Clara Brown (1803-1885)
Clara Brown was a kind-hearted, generous woman whose determination led her on a life-long quest to be reunited with her...
(1775) Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
This historic proclamation, dated November 7, 1775 and issued from on board a British warship lying off Norfolk, Virginia, by...
