The Hippodrome Theater is located in Richmond’s Jackson Ward Historic District, considered the center of African American commerce, arts and entertainment during the early 20th Century. In the 1930′s and 1940′s, the venue attracted big stars like Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Ethel Waters, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Moms Mably and James Brown. The historic theater adjoins [...]
American Civil War Center | Richmond, VA
Using films, photos, contemporary quotations, and other sources, the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, on the banks of the James River in Richmond, Virginia, is the nation’s first museum to interpret the Civil War on both the local and national levels through the perspectives Union, Confederate, and African American participants. Exhibits narrate the [...]
Virginia Civil Rights Memorial | Richmond, VA
On April 23, 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Johns and several fellow students led a strike to protest the conditions at their racially segregated school near Farmville in Prince Edward County. Under the leadership of Rev. L. Francis Griffin, students and parents contacted NAACP attorneys. The lawsuit that followed was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court and [...]
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Richmond, VA
“Let us put our money out as usury among ourselves and reap the benefit ourselves. Let us have a bank that will take the nickels and turn them into dollars.”–Maggie L. Walker, 1901 Although widely acclaimed as being the first African American woman to found and be president of a bank, Maggie L. Walker was [...]
