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| Creator: | Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935- |
| Title: | Ball field adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, Farmville, Va., 1991 |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Description: | Ball field on S. Main Street in Farmville, Va., adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, which was known as Mary E. Branch Elementary School #2 for African Americans in 1963. This is one of the two sites where the Richmond Volunteers to Prince Edward County conducted recreational and educational activities for school-less African Americans teenage boys in 1961-1962. In the background is the previous African American high school, and the cemetery where L. Francis Griffin, Jr. is buried. Longwood College had taken possession of the field by 1998. 37.2924846,-78.3961863 Local identifier: pec104.tif |
| Types: | Color photographs |
| Subjects: | R. R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.) | Mary E. Branch Elementary School No. 2 (Farmville, Va.) | Baseball fields--Virginia--Farmville--History--Pictorial works | Sports facilities--Virginia--Prince Edward County | Farmville (Va.) | Prince Edward County (Va.) |
| Collection: | Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools |
| Institution: | Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries |
| Contributors: | VCU Libraries. JBC Special Collections | Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Project (VCU Libraries) |
| Online Publisher: | Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries | 2010 |
| Original Material: | Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools |
| Rights and Usage: | http://www.library.vcu.edu/copyright.html |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dig.library.vcu.edu/u?/pec,188 |
