Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia and Procedures and Requirements for Voting in Virginia
This 1944 booklet is the Virginia Voters League’s fifth annual report. The League began in 1941 and worked with the NAACP in advocating for increased African American participation at the polls. It was led by <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jackson_Luther_Porter_1892-1950#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Encyclopedia Virgina entry on Jackson" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther P. Jackson</a>, an historian and civil rights advocate who formed the Petersburg League of Negro Voters in 1935, which developed into the Virginia Voters League. The booklet details African American voting strength and includes instructions for voter registration. <br /><br />At this time in Virginia, the payment of a poll tax for three consequtive years was a requirement for voting. The booklet notes that in 1943, the number of blacks who met the poll tax requirement was 32,504. That number increased to 41,579 in 1944. Nevertheless, those numbers represent only 9 to 11 per cent of Virginia blacks of voting age, or expressed another way, about 89 per cent of blacks were disqualified from voting in 1944. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Title page: "With grant-in-aid of publication by the Virginia State Teachers Association, Virginia branches of the N.A.A.C.P., Virginia lodges of Elks, the Eureka Lodge of Norfolk, Virginia chapters of Greek letter fraternities and sororities, and the Virginia Negro Organization Society." <br /><br />p. 4 <br /><strong>Foreward</strong><br />This fifth annual report of the Virginia Voters League defines the voting status of Negroes in Virginia as of May 7, 1944, the last day for paying the poll tax in order to have voted in the ensuing August primary and the November election. In order to satisfy the demand for a statement of voting requirements in Virginia and other states this handbook devotes a section to this topic also. <br /><br />To all persons who seek to advance the political status of Negroes and to observe racial trends on suffrage in Virginia this publication may serve as a guide. <br /><br />The compiler of this report is again deeply indebted to the 124 county and city court clerks in Virginia for furnishing the data on poll tax paying either by letter or by sending the poll tax list itself. Every county and city is included in this report because every clerk cooperated. <br /><br /><strong>SLOGAN</strong><br /><strong>Pay the poll tax in order to abolish the poll tax. </strong>
Jackson, Luther P.
Virginia Voters League
General collection, <a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" title="Search VMHC collections" rel="noreferrer noopener">JK1929.V8 V8 1944</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1944
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Letter to Eleanor P. Sheppard from Lyndon B. Johnson, February 10, 1964
Letter to the Honorable Eleanor P. Sheppard, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia from President Lyndon Baines Johnson. February 10, 1964. <br /><br />This letter accompanied the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation "<a href="President's%20Commission%20on%20Registration%20and%20Voting%20Participation" target="_blank" title="Report of the Commission" rel="noreferrer noopener">Report on Registration and Voting Participation</a>." <br /><br />Text:<br />The White House<br />Washington<br />February 10, 1964<br /><br />Dear Mayor Sheppard: <br /><br />Less than two thirds of Americans of voting age cast ballots in Presidential elections. Less than one half vote in Congressional elections. <br /><br />This is a serious void in our free society. <br /><br />Last March President Kennedy appointed a bipartisan Commission on Registration and Voting Particpation. Its task was to study the causes of nonvoting and to recommend remedies. After careful study this Commission has presented its report and I send one to you. <br /><br />More interest in voting can be stressed by local efforts. May I suggest that you might want to consider the appointment of a citizens committee to investigate possible restrictions to reistration and voting -- and to promote greater voter participation in the 1964 elections. <br /><br />At a time when people all over the world cry out for the right to vote, too many of our citizens neglect to use this most precious of all citizen privileges. Our states and our cities, by improving voting laws and voting practices, can help produce increased voting interest by all the people. <br /><br />Kindly give me a report on the situation in your city. <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson, Lyndon B.
M 277, Box 11, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/591.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eleanor P. Sheppard papers, 1924 - 1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1964 February 10
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Voting" target="_blank" title="primary sources related to voting in the United States" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Discovery Set: Controlling the Vote, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1963/Month%2005/Day%2008/JFKWHP-1963-05-08-D" target="_blank" title="Photographs" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit of the Commission on Registration & Voting Participation, 12:25PM</a>, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum <br /><br />Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. <a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHSFLCW/003/JFKWHSFLCW-003-002" target="_blank" title="archival materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 23 April 1963-30 March 1964</a><br /><br /><span>Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. <a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHSFLCW/003/JFKWHSFLCW-003-001" target="_blank" title="archival materials, 1962-1963" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 21 December 1962–30 March 1963</a></span>
Invitation to Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations to Adele Clark from Ben R. Lacy, Jr.
Letter of invitation from Dr. Ben R. Lacy, Jr. Chairman of the Conference Committe and President, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. Addressed to Miss Adele Clark. the letter invites her to attend the Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. The conference was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The conference theme was "Facing Facts With a Christian Program." <br /><br />Lacy begins, "The South faces no problem more far-reaching and difficult of solution than that caused by the presence in one territory of the white and Negro races. In any serious effor to find a way out, the Churches must take the place of leadership."<br /><br />The letter notes that "Only white people (except as indicated) will be expected to be present, in order that there may be the most freedom of expression in facing our responsibility." <br /><br />Representatives from the various denominations, "Presidents of Denominational Schools and Colleges, Editors of Church Press, Directors of Religious Education, Missionary Secretaries, Church Women's Societies, all white ministers, officials of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. and Special Students" were invited. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="Documents related to this conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this event. <br /><br />Among the speakers at the conference were Gordon B. Hancock, a professor at Virginia Union University, spoke on living conditions of African Americans in Richmond, and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute whose address closed the conference.
Lacy, Ben R., Jr.
M 9 Box 34, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xmll" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1930 October 21
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Woman's Bill of Rights: As introduced in the Virginia Legislature, 1922
This leaflet produced by the National Woman's Party, Virginia Branch, is a copy of the Woman's Bill of Rights, as introduced in the Virginia Legislature in 1922. <br /><br />"To provide that women shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities under the law, as men."
National Woman's Party
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National Woman's Party
1922
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Candlelight AIDS memorial vigil on E. Grace Street, from St. Paul's Episcopal Church to Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.
<p>In 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA identified a new disease that, among its many signs, severely weakened the immune system. Named acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), this disease was initially seen among gay men in large cities. <br /> Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), identified in 1985, is transmitted through blood, genital fluids (such as semen) and breastmilk. <br /><br />The earliest confirmed case of AIDS in the U.S. was in 1968, with the first case in Virginia reported in 1982. With no known cure, HIV/AIDS was initially a death sentence for those infected. <br /><br />Participants in this 1987 candlelight AIDS memorial vigil walked down E. Grace Street from St. Paul's Episcopal Churh to Capitol Square in Richmond, Va.</p>
Pennell, Don (photographer)
V.88.68.144, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection</a>, The Valentine
1987 May 25
The Valentine
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Nurse Lucille Meador at Beth Sholom Home of Virginia
Nurse Lucille Meador walks through the snow wearing snowshoes at the Beth Sholom Home of Virginia, 5729 Fitzhugh Avenue, Henrico County, Virginia <br /><br />The Beth Sholom Home of Virginia opened in 1945 as Virginia’s first Jewish nursing home. Originally located in the Fan District, the home moved to Fitzhugh Avenue in 1958 before relocating to Henrico’s Short Pump. During the 2000s, the home expanded its services to include a rehabilitation clinic and Beth Sholom Garden, Virginia’s first Jewish assisted living facility.
Pennell, Don, photographer
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1966 January 30
The Valentine
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Exchange for Woman's Work. Fourth Annual Report, 1887. [exceprt]
Report by Mrs. W. T. Richardson, recording secretary for the Exchange for Woman's Work. This excerpt (pp. 9 - 14) is taken from the Fourth Annual Report of the Exchange, 1887. <br /><br />Text (excerpt)<br /><br />Annual Report. <br /><br />The Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work has now completed its fourth year. <br /><br />During the past twelve months, 5,279 articles have been place on sale, representing the handiwork of 400 women, 3,790 of these consignments were sold, realizing the sum of $3,375, which amount, less the commission of ten per cent, was paid to the consignors. <br /><br />Every article deposited for sale, however simple, must be the best of its kind. To reach and adhere to this standard is the persistent aim of the Board of Managers. They are gratified to observe a steady advance in the character and variety of the work offered. The Exchange is thus proving a school<br />p.10 for the education of workers—developing the artistic instinct, correcting defects of design and execution, etc., --while it fosters a spirit of industry, energy and independence, and affords to all, even the aged and the invalid, an opportunity to turn to pecuniary advantage whatever talent they possess, however homely it may be….<br /><br />We enter upon our fifth year with courage and hope—in any event, resting upon the promise that our work shall be accepted according to what we have, and not according to what we have not. <br /><br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Mrs. W. T. Richardson, Recording Secretary.
Richardson, W. T. (Mrs.)
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The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to the Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Support Rally for Gay & Lesbian Rights [broadside]
This broadside advertises a support rally for gay and lesbian civil rights that was held October 8, 1977.<br /><br /> Activists organized the rally in Monroe Park to protest a concert given at the University of Richmond by Anita Bryant, the popular entertainer who evolved into a prominent anti-gay rights crusader in the 1970s.<br /><br />The rally’s primary speaker, Karla Jay (b. 1947), is the prominent professor, activist and author who published <em>Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation</em> (1972), with Allen Young. <br /><br />Image at bottom shows silhouettes and outlined figures with the caption, "We are your children."
Richmond Citizens for Gay and Lesbian Rights
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=9e07c00e-3944-4c7a-8ee5-d5aad67e8986" target="_blank" title="Broadsides 1977:9" rel="noreferrer noopener">Broadside Collection, Call Number 1977:9</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1977
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://commonground.richmond.edu/lgbtq-life/history/1970s.html" target="_blank" title="Anita Bryant at UR" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anita Bryant at UR</a>, 1970s, LGBTQ History at UR, Common Ground, University of Richmond <br /><a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00115.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Guide to the Richmond Gay Documents Collection</a>, 1974-1988, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU
Anti-Busing Motorcade in Washington, D.C., February 1972
Black and white photograph of a Richmond-based anti-busing motorcade passing through Washington, D.C. on 2nd Street behind the U.S. Supreme Court building. A policeman walks beside two cars.<br /><br /><span>On February 17, 1972, nearly 3,300 cars traveled in a motorcade from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, DC. Despite snow, the protesters made a symbolic journey to Capitol Hill to voice their opposition to Judge Robert Merihge's ruling (</span><em>Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia) </em><span>that public schools</span><span> in Richmond, Henrico County, and Chesterfield County must be consolidated. At that time, Richmond public schools were 70 per cent black while those of the two counties were about 90 per cent white.<br /><br />Cars in the motorcade carried red and white signs reading “Help Save Freedom” and imprinted with a picture of a little red schoolhouse. </span>
Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
P.74.11.18m, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1972 February 17
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/18/archives/3300-autos-driven-to-capital-in-protest-3300-cars-in-the-capital.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest</a><span>, </span><em>The New York Times</em><span>, February 18, 1972.<br /></span><br /><span>Pratt, Robert A. </span><em><em>The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. <br /><br /><a href="http://lawreview.richmond.edu/2017/09/28/the-conscience-of-virginia-judge-robert-r-merhige-jr-and-the-politics-of-school-desegregation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation</a> <br /></em></em><br /><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/338/67/2182321/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972) </a> <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=busing" target="_blank" title="materials related to school busing" rel="noreferrer noopener">Busing</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Richmond School of Social Economy, First Annual Announcement, 1917-1918. Bulletin No. 1
First <em>Bulletin</em> of the <a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/making-vcu/early-social-work-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="online exhibit of school history">Richmond School of Social Economy</a>. This school would change names at several points in its history, becoming the School of Social Work and Public Health, the Richmond Professional Institute, and, after merging with the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. <br /><br />Stamped on cover: "Name changed from Richmond School of Social Economy to Virginia School of Social Work."<br /><br />Address also changed with a stamp from "<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.540251,-77.4386129,3a,75y,278.2h,118.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNAutB6LXUUJ1LdXXZW804g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="View this location in Google Street View">6-8 North 6th Street</a>" to "1112 Capitol St." Richmond, VA.<br /><br />This bulletin describes the classes, curriculum, and field work offerred by the new Richmond School of Social Economy along three tracks: general, public health nursing, and recreation. Entrance requirements, registration, fees, scholarships, library facilities, board and other matters are outlined. The names of the Board of Directors, Administrative Officers, Faculty and Special Lecturers are listed. <br /><br />An <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23775&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="ad from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 22, 1917">advertisement</a> for the first term declared: "Usual Opportunities Offerred For specialization in Public Health Nursing, Church Work, Medical Social Work, Juvenile Court and Playground Work."<br /><br />Field work in the first year included the <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/corrections/virginia-home-and-industrial-school-for-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="history of the institution">Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls</a>, a reform school in Bon Air, Va. The superintendent, Anna M. Petersen taught eugenics at the RSSE. <br /><br />---<br /><br />Transcriptions of <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em> articles describing the events surrounding the establishment of the school may be found at the Social Welfare History Project. These describe the period from October 1916, when serious conversations about starting a school began to be reported in the press, to July 1917 when Howard H. Hibbs, began as the school's first director. <br /><br />The efforts of Richmond and Petersburg citizens such as Orie Latham Hatcher, Virginia McKenney (later Claiborne), Father Charles Hannigan, Nannie Minor, the Rev. J. T. Mastin, May Lansfield Keller, Katherine H. Hawes, the Rev. H. C. D. Maclachlan, and Agnes Randolph were important in the movement from felt need, to the idea of a school, and finally to the reality of classes and field work. <br /><br />Additional transcriptions in the Social Welfare History Project concern reporting of the school's opening and first term. <br /><br />Excerpts from the <em>Bulletin</em>: <br />
<p>The Richmond School of Social Economy was incorporated April 17<sup>th</sup> with the following Board of Directors;</p>
<p>Mr. J. J. Scherer, Jr. … President <br />Mr. Wortley F. Rudd … Vice-President <br />Miss Virginia S. McKenney ... Secretary <br />Mr. F. B. Dunford … Treasurer</p>
<p>(Names of board members follows)</p>
<p>Administrative Officers <br />Mr. J. J. Scherer, Jr., Chairman <br />Miss Virginia McKenney <br />Mr. F. B. Dunford <br />Dr. H. D. C Maclachlan <br />Mrs. Roy K. Flannagan <br />Dr. O. L. Hatcher <br />Father Chas. Hannigan <br />Dr. F. T. McFaden <br />Mr. W. F. Rudd</p>
Richmond School of Social Economy
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
1917
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/corrections/virginia-home-and-industrial-school-for-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="history of the reform school">Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23775&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="early accounts of the foundation of the RSSE">Richmond School of Social Economy - Beginnings. October 1916 - July 1917</a>. Social Welfare History Project<br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23840&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="newspaper articles related to the first term">Richmond School of Social Economy. Opening Term. Fall 1917.</a> Social Welfare History Project
Female Humane Society, Richmond, Virginia
The Memorial Foundation for Children’s story began in 1805, when a homeless girl supposedly presented herself at the door of Jean Moncure Wood, wife of Governor James E. Wood. Realizing that the city lacked a shelter for needy girls, Mrs. Wood worked to establish the Female Humane Association in 1807.<br /><br />The Association was incorporated in 1811 and built its first shelter on the corner of St. John's and Charity streets in Richmond. It was later called the Memorial Home for Girls (1921), the Memorial Foundation (1946), and then the Memorial Foundation for Children (1962). Throughout its history, the organization has provided shelter to homeless children, guidance and psychological services, and daycare. In 1972, the foundation shifted from direct care to giving financial assistance to other local charities.
Scott, Mary Wingfield (photographer)
<a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
c. 1940
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101066382613;view=2up;seq=4" target="_blank" title="Constitution and By-Laws of the Female Humane Association" rel="noreferrer noopener">Constitution and By-Laws of the Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond</a>, Adopted April 1, 1833. HathiTrust.org <br /><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01262.xml" target="_blank" title="Memorial Foundation for Children (finding aid)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Memorial Foundation for Children</a>. Records, 1811-2006, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia (finding aid) <br />"<a href="https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RE18430602.1.3&srpos=16&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-female+humane+association+1843------" target="_blank" title="The Noble Asylum" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Noble Asylum</a>" Richmond Enquirer, Volume 40, Number 7, 2 June 1843 (p. 3 col. 2). Virginia Chronicle.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Newsletter, (Vol. 1, No. 12), September 1963
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) newsletter published weeks after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The newsletter reports on the March and also reports on the upcoming 7th Annual conference to take place at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, September 24 - 27, 1963. As president of the SCLC, Martin Luther King, Jr. attended the conference and spoke on the final evening.<br />
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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1963 September
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Learn more: <br /><span>Hansan, John E., </span><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-on-washington-august-28-1963/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-1963-film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The March (1963) [film]</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/248" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a><span> [publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
“V is for Virginia” [broadside]
In 1944, military leaders struggled to maintain troop levels as casualties mounted in World War II. The Navy Women’s Reserve Act, signed into law in 1942, authorized women to become part of the group called Women Accepted for Volunteer Service—commonly known as WAVES. <br /><br />By 1945, some 86,000 reservists were on duty. Women served in myriad roles during the war, running the gamut from clerks and drivers to machinists and radio operators, as well as doctors, engineers, and attorneys. <br /><br />This Richmond broadside encourages women to volunteer to become part of the “all-Virginia WAVES group.”<br /><br />Text:<br /><br />V is for VIRGINIA, the Old Dominion State which has given so generously of her men and women in every cause of justice, righteousness, and democracy. <br /><br />V is for VICTORY, which requires the energy and effort of every man and woman to bring the war to a quick and sure end. <br /><br />V is for VOLUNTEER, as in Virginia Victory Volunteers, the all-Virginia WAVES group in which Virginia women are enlisting during August and September 1944 to achieve the Victory we all desire. <br /><br />Investigate YOUR opportunity today!<br />Volunteer at any U.S. Navy Recruiting Station or Office of Naval Officer Procurement; <br />(5th & Cary Sts., Richmond 19, Va.)
United States Navy
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=b11967ef-df7b-4e53-af99-d2c326a299a2" target="_blank" title="Broadsides 1944:4" rel="noreferrer noopener">Broadside Collection, Call Number 1944:4</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1944
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Richmond Community Fund membership button
Pinback button <br /><br />In 1924, the Richmond Area Community Council created the Community Fund, later known as the Richmond Area Community Chest. This trust centralized fundraising and fund distribution to the Council’s more than thirty member organizations.
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<a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The Valentine</a> (Gift of Eloise Robinson Blackwell)
c. 1935
The Valentine
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<div><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/wQxaWRIE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach</a>, The Valentine </div>
Annie Holland, Age 17, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA
Photograph on postcard of a young African American woman named Annie Holland, standing in front of the Seventeenth Street Mission in Richmond, VA. Se wears a long dress with a jacket. Her hands are clasped behind her back. <br /><br />Notes on the front of the card give her age as 17 and note her many accomplishments in a single year of study. They read:<br /><br />"17th St. Mission Richmond, Va.<br />Annie Holland Age - 17.<br />Has recited twice, perfectly, wk. apart.<br />C[hild's] Cat[echism] 145 q[uestions]<br />Sh[orter] Cat[echism] 25 q[uestions]<br />Lords Prayer<br />Beatitudes<br />A[postles] Creed<br />10 Com[mandments]<br />Is 53<br />I Cor 13<br />Eccl 12<br />Matt 5.6.7<br />Ps 1, 15, 19, 23<br />91, 100, 121<br />----------------<br />All within<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">12 months"</span>
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<a href="https://upsem.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=Seventeenth+Street+Mission" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Seventeenth Street Mission Collection</a><span>, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary</span>
ca. 1914
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Exchange for Woman's Work - Interior, Richmond, Va.
Photograph of the interior of the Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, 203 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Va. <br /><br /><span>The Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement that began in Philadelphia in 1832. The Association was <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/544" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="source of following quotation">begun by women</a> "to aid ladies whose pecuniary circumstances require them to make their own handiwork a means of their support, and also to afford an opportunity by which work may be sold for charitable purposes." The Richmond Exchange operated until 1955. <br /></span>
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MSC0037-Photo, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The Valentine">The Valentine</a>.
c. 1930
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Woman%27s+Exchange+Movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to the Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Notice! The Coloured People of the City of Richmond… [broadside]
This 1866 broadside, issued by members of the African American community in Richmond, intended to clarify their plans to celebrate not the fall of the Confederacy, but rather the first anniversary of emancipation. <br /><br />When Richmond fell into the hands of Union troops, on 3 April 1865, enslaved individuals there effectively were emancipated. The text noted that the black community would commemorate “the day on which GOD was pleased to liberate their long-oppressed race”—emphasizing that their freedom came about as a result of God’s will. <br /><br />In the immediate aftermath of the war, racialized confrontations in Richmond’s streets frequently led to violence, and near-riots. The African American community, while determined to carry out their celebration, clearly intended to preempt potentially violent repercussions. <br /><br />Text: <br /><br />"NOTICE! <br />The coloured people of the City of Richmond would most respectfully inform the public, that <br />THEY DO NOT INTEND <br />to celebrate<br />THE FAILURE OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, <br />as it has been stated in the papers of this City, but simply as the day on which GOD was pleased to Liberate their long-oppressed race. <br /><br />C. Harris,<br />J. Cocks, <br />J. Edmunds, <br />F. J. Smith,<br />N. Williams, <br />Committee.<br /><br />Richmond, Va., April 2, 1866"
Unknown, although presumed authors are the “Committee” listed on the broadside: C. Harris, J. Cocks, J. Edmunds, F. J. Smith, N. Williams.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=a84a29b0-4818-4a3f-9ca1-9c2956b6341c" target="_blank" title="Broadsides 1866:13" rel="noreferrer noopener">Broadside Collection, Call Number 1866:13</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1866
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4244524" target="_blank" title="An account of the Evacuation of Richmond, Va." rel="noreferrer noopener">The Evacuation of Richmond</a>. (1933). </span><i>The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,</i><span> </span><i>41</i><span>(3), 215-222. <br /></span><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Richmond_During_the_Civil_War#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Richmond during the Civil War" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond during the Civil War</a>, Encyclopedia Virginia <br />Ruane, M.E. (2015). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/03/27/wars-end/?utm_term=.0f805cd2557d" target="_blank" title="War's End. The Washington Post" rel="noreferrer noopener">War's End</a>. <em>The Washington Post.</em><br /><a href="https://www.virginiahistory.org/collections-and-resources/educator-resources/linking-our-past/broadside-committee-2-april-1866#Richmond%20Whig%20-%20March%2027%201866" target="_blank" title="Linking to Our Past" rel="noreferrer noopener">Linking to Our Past</a>, Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Jefferson Ward: List of Qualified Voters, Election Tuesday, November 7, 1933
<p>This 1933 booklet provides “a list of persons in Jefferson Ward in the City of Richmond, who have paid their State Poll Taxes.” Poll taxes were enacted by many southern states after Reconstruction to suppress African American voting. Such taxes were a precondition for voting and thus disenfranchised those who could not pay the fee. <br /><br />Use of the poll tax in federal elections was abolished with the passage of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964, and in state-level elections by the 1966 Supreme Court decision in <em>Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections</em>. <br /><br />The booklet is divided into “WHITE” voters, listed in the first 274 pages, and “COLORED” voters, listed on pages 275 to 304.</p>
Unknown, but presumably “H. L. Hulce, Treasurer of the City of Richmond, Virginia,” who swore “that the foregoing is a true list,” as described on page 305.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=76257a97-9be4-4971-b1b5-351eec5dcce9">General collection, Call Number F233.69 .J3</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1933
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set" rel="noreferrer noopener">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation</a>. Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=poll+tax" target="_blank" title="items related to poll taxes" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll tax materials</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br />Tarter, B. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Poll_Tax#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Poll Tax" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poll Tax</a>, Encyclopedia Virginia
Anti-Suffrage Arguments. DANGER! [anti-suffrage broadside]
A single-sided handbill published by the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. The handbill argues that woman suffrage will lead to socialism and the destruction of the Christian family and the holding of private property. <br /><br />See also "<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/68" target="_blank" title="anti-suffrage handbill, 1915" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Red Behind the Yellow</a>." <br /><br />Text: <br /><br />Anti-Suffrage Arguments<br />DANGER ! <br />WOMAN's SUFFRAGE THE VANGUARD OF SOCIALISM<br /><br />Proof. --See here-- <br />1. What is Socialism? <br />Socialism is against Christian marriage. <br />Socialism is against the Christian family. <br />Socialism is against the holding of private property. <br />Socialism is against Christianity. <br />Socialism is against the Bible. <br /><br />2. If you hold your marriage, your family life, your home, your religion, as sacred, dear and inviolate, to be preserved for yourself, and for your children, for all time, then work with all your might against Socialism's vanguard--Woman's Suffrage. <br /><br />3. In a parade in New York City last November they openly marched together. The Woman Suffragists as the vanguard, with their yellow flags. The Socialists behind with their red flags. <br /><br />4. The Socialist red flag had this inscription: "Every Socialist is a Woman Suffragist."<br />Does every Virginia WOman Suffragist intend to be a Socialist?<br /><br />5. We hope not. But "There is a way which seemeth righ unto a man, but the end thereof is death."<br />Danger lies ahead of you. <br /><br />Do you recognize the kindship? <br />Is not this Plain enough for you? <br /><br />Literature can be obtained free of cost at <br />Meyers Book Store, First and Broad Streets<br />Bell Book and Stationery Co, 914 E. Main Street <br /><br />Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage.
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage
M 9 Box 233, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/woman-suffrage/gallery" target="_blank" title="Gallery of items related to Woman Suffrage" rel="noreferrer noopener">Woman Suffrage</a>, Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=anti-suffrage" target="_blank" title="anti-suffrage items" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-suffrage materials</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Weeks, L. (2015). <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/10/22/450221328/american-women-who-were-anti-suffragettes" target="_blank" title="NPR story on anti-suffrage women" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Women Who Were Anti-Suffragettes</a>. National Public Radio.
Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Officers, Executive Committee, and Members
List of members and the organizations they represented in the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Dr. R.E. Blackwell was the Virginia Chairman of this group. <br /><br />The parent organization, the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> (CIC), was based in Atlanta, Ga. Founded in 1919 by progressive Southern whites, the CIC sought to improve race relations with an anti-lynching campaign, and by educating the public about issues affecting blacks such as peonage, police brutality, and disparities in educational and health services. The group published a newsletter, <em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?collection=10" target="_blank" title="issues of The Southern Frontier" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Southern Frontier</a>. <br /><br /><br /></em>
Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation
M 9 Box 81, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Woman Citizen, December 20, 1919
"Help! I Can't Keep it Down" cover cartoon by Charles H. Winner <br /><br />Article , "Noted Virginian for the F. S. A." reports on Colonel H. W. Anderson writing to the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia in support of ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. Henry W. Anderson was the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia in 1921. He was at one time the <span>fiancé of writer </span>Ellen Glasgow.
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21463133110001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Special Collections and Archives</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1919 December 20
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference: Second Annual Convention
This program is for the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference Second Annual Convention, held at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, VA from December 11, 1915 to December 13, 1915.<br /><br />The back cover displays a poem entitled "The Suffragists' 'America,'" by Mary L. Daly of Yonkers, N.Y. <br /><br />"My country 'tis for thee,<br />To make your women free,<br /> This is our plea.<br />High have our hopes been raised<br />In these enlightened days<br />That for her justice, praised<br /> Our land might be.<br /><br />My native country, thee; <br />Grant us equality! <br /> Then shall we see<br />In this fair land of light, <br />Justice and truth and right<br />Ruling, instead of might - <br /> True liberty. <br /><br />'Our fathers' God to Thee,<br />Author of liberty,<br /> To Thee we sing;<br />Long may our land be bright<br />With freedom's holy light; <br />Protect us by Thy might,<br /> Great God, our King.'"
M 9 Box 48, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1915
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-poll-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-part-ii-one-party-system/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Certificate of Confirmation for Beulah Bratman
Neighborhood House Certificate of Confirmation <br /><br />"This is to Ceritfy that Beulah Bratman was duly confirmed on the 27 day of May 5688, 1928 in the presence of Congregation Council of Jewish Women at Richmond, VA by the undersigned <br />Kate T. Goldman, President<br />Reba C. Franzblau, Chairman<br />Edward N. Calisch, Minister of the Congregation<br /><br />Motto Know Before Whom Thou Art Standing"
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<span>In the early 1900’s, non-resident settlement houses were created throughout the country to assist with immigrant adjustment to America. In 1912, the Richmond Section of the National Council of Jewish Women established Neighborhood House at 19</span><span>th</span><span> and Broad Streets. Programs of social, recreational and religious activities were provided for the children of recent Jewish immigrants. <br /><br />Neighborhood House was eventually funded by the Richmond general community, offering activities for all immigrant children and their families. In April 1945, after attendance had declined, Neighborhood House was closed. </span>
The National Council of Jewish Women, Richmond Section collection, <a href="https://bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
1928 May 27 (5688)
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Neighborhood House Boy's Basketball Team, 1926 - 1927
Photograph of boy's basketball team from Neighborhood House, Richmond, VA. <br /><br />Nine young men and their coach are shown with a trophy and basketball on which is written "C.M.H" SR. Com. Champs 1926-27.<br /><br />In the early 1900’s, non-resident settlement houses were created throughout the country to assist with immigrant adjustment to America. In 1912, the Richmond Section of the National Council of Jewish Women established Neighborhood House at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/rfMyRcJVHNr" title="The building still stands today." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">19th and Broad Streets</a>. Programs of social, recreational and religious activities were provided for the children of recent Jewish immigrants. <br /><br />Neighborhood House was eventually funded by the Richmond general community, offering activities for all immigrant children and their families. In April 1945, after attendance had declined, Neighborhood House was closed.
<span>The National Council of Jewish Women, Richmond Section collection, </span><a href="https://bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
1926-27
Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
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Neighborhood House Sabbath School Class, 1921
Photograph of children ages 8 - 9 in the Neighborhood House Sabbath School, Richmond, VA. Taken in 1921.<br /><br /><p>In the early 1900’s, non-resident settlement houses were created throughout the country to assist with immigrant adjustment to America. In 1912, the Richmond Section of the National Council of Jewish Women established Neighborhood House at 19th and Broad Streets. Programs of social, recreational and religious activities were provided for the children of recent Jewish immigrants. <br /><br />Neighborhood House was eventually funded by the Richmond general community, offering activities for all immigrant children and their families. In April 1945, after attendance had declined, Neighborhood House was closed.</p>
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<span>The National Council of Jewish Women, Richmond Section collection, </span><a href="https://bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
1921
Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
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