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Struggle, Sacrifice, and Scholarship
Black Education in Central Virginia, 1800-1922

Susie Gibson, Jeanes supervisor, and her pupils, Bedford County, Virginia, c. 1915. The Jeanes Fund, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund, was established in 1907 by Pennsylvania Quaker Anna T. Jeanes. The fund provided supervisors for poor rural schools.

Susie Gibson, Jeanes Supervisor, and her pupils, Bedford County, Virginia, c. 1915. The Jeanes Fund, also known as the Negro Rural School Fund, was established in 1907 by Pennsylvania Quaker Anna T. Jeanes. The fund provided supervisors for poor rural schools.

Introductory Text
Advocacy
Self Help
Struggle and Sacrifice
Lesson Plans (Virginia SOLs)

Exhibit Panels

  1. The Slave-Holding Era
  2. Civil War and Reconstruction
  3. Vocational Education
  4. Higher Education
  5. Self-Help and Advocacy
  6. Philanthropy
  7. Beginnings of Lynchburg Public Schools
  8. Amherst County
  9. Appomattox County
  10. Bedford County
  11. Campbell County
  12. Virginia Theological Seminary and College [part ii] [part iii]
  13. Separate But Equal?
Acknowledgements