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Exhibits

Currently at the Museum: "Celebrating Community!
The Legacy Museum's First Ten Years"
HOURS:  Wednesday-Saturday: 12 - 4 p.m., Sunday: 2-4 p.m.
Other times by appointment
Closed on major holidays - Wheelchair accessible
ENTRY FEE:  See: Entry Fee

  

On-line Exhibits

Struggle, Sacrifice, and Scholarship:

Black Education in Central Virginia, 1800-1922

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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.
Herbs to Lasers, Cholera to AIDS:

African American Medicine and Health, 1800-2000

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Nurse Display  Dentist Tools Dentist Display

For Our Own Good:

African American Civic and Social Groups in Central Virginia

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Little Miss Ebony participants, sponsored by the Serenade Club, Campbell County, 1980s