Virginia State University
Johnston Memorial Library
Virginia State University
P.O. Box 9406
1 Hayden Drive
Petersburg, Virginia 23806
Primary Collecting Areas:
African American History in Virginia and African American Education
Description:
The Virginia State University (VSU) Special Collections and Archives holds
information on African American history in Virginia on the subject(s) of
the Arts and women’s organizations, literature, agriculture as well as the
premier primary sources that chronicle African American education in
Virginia from the founding of the University 1882, to the 1960s.
Worth mentioning are the Virginia Teachers Association Papers, an
organization of African American teachers established in 1887 in Lynchburg
VA and managed on the campus of VSU; the Virginia Interscholastic
Association Papers, 1954-1969, an association of African American high
school records of more than 100 schools representing a student population
of over forty thousand; the Prince Edward Free School Papers chronicles the
period in Prince Edward County when the public school system was closed and
efforts of the Black community to educate African American students through
that period; the Archie Richardson Papers which contains photographs of
African American rural school houses during the 1930s.
POC: Juan-Pablo Gonzalez
Email: jpgonzalez@vsu.edu
Phone: (804) 524-6945
Email: refdesk@vsu.edu
Phone: (804) 524-5582
Fax: (804) 524-6959
Web: library.vsu.edu