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Investigating the meaning of Juneteenth and Emancipation Day commemorations in the former capital of the Confederacy on VCU Libraries Social Welfare History Project.

[Image Description: A young girl dressed in an elaborate feathered hat, coat and fur muff (handwarmer) stands in the snow with a her adoring setter.]

You can read the statements of Southern white women from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Several CIC pamphlets may be found in the Social Welfare History Image Portal.

The Virginia Feminist Oral History Project collects interviews with women involved in second-wave feminism and related activism in Virginia.  These oral histories also fill a gap in the written historical record by documenting the women's personal reflections and perspectives on how they became feminists, their relationships with other activists, and the relationships between women and various organizations that fought for women’s rights.  http://bit.ly/VaFemOH

From the  Edward H. Peeples Collection, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library.

You’ll find more beautiful Allen & Ginter albums displayed on VCU Libraries’ Flickr site. 

Why die in time of war when we can't live iin time of peace? Protesters demonstrating near A&P, Farmville, Va., July 1963 by VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project Location: A&P, Farmville, Va. Date on back of photograph: 1963-07-30 Collection: Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests Rights: Materials in this collection are in the public domain, and thus are free of any copyright restriction. We ask that you acknowledge the VCU Libraries if any of the materials are used. Filename: far223a.tif High-resolution image: https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A4544 These images are presented by VCU Libraries in the hopes that we might better identify the people and locations photographed. Comments, including remembrances of these events, are highly encouraged and appreciated. https://flic.kr/p/jZxASc

Protesters urge customers to boycott Grants, Farmville Shopping Center, August 1963 by VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project https://flic.kr/p/jZA2jy