Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Special
Collections/University Archives
Johnston Memorial Library
Petersburg, VA 23803
804-524-5042
Fax: 804-524-5482
Personal and business correspondence of this graduate of Virginia
State University from Suffolk. The collection reflects her commitment
to social activism.
(Acc. 0082-19)
Consists of photographs and artifacts from the Christiansburg
Institute.
(Acc. 0085-34)
A photograph, funeral program, and history of the Mount Zion Baptist
Church in Oxford.
(Acc. 0082-58)
Issues of some of the black-owned newspapers that existed in and
around the Southside Virginia area beginning in 1882.
(Acc. 0076-55d)
Personal and business correspondence, accounts, and printed items of
the first black Episcopal bishop in the United States. Included are
copies of the newspaper published by Bragg, The Afro-American
Churchman.
(Acc. 0042-18)
Manumission papers of slaves in North Carolina. The material was
collected by Brewer while he was a faculty member at Virginia State.
Included is a petition for the self-hire of a slave in Wilmington,
North Carolina.
(Acc. 0078-25)
Bulletins pertaining to the association's athletics.
(Acc. 0076-55e)
Personal, business, and academic correspondence of this antebellum
free black and slave family from Petersburg. Included are letters
concerning activities of the underground railroad in Petersburg. This
large collection contains the papers of a number of related family
members who were all involved in black academic institutions in
Virginia. Among the correspondents are William Still, John Henry
Hill, and William Henry Johnson.
(Acc. 0065-13)
Financial correspondence, printed items, and other memorabilia of the
Colson-Hill family.
(Acc. 0088-13b)
Personal and business correspondence of the fifth president of
Virginia State, one of the leading proponents behind equalization of
Business and personal correspondence, writings, speeches, pamphlets,
and news clippings of this professor of philosophy and religion at
Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0086-42)
Photographs, most of which pertain to homecoming activities at
Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0085-54)
Photographs of black women who were members of the "The First Colored
Women Voters of Ettrick" club.
(Acc. 0084-26)
Self-published book, an account of a California family.
(Acc. 0086-51)
A Virginia State University commencement invitation.
(Acc. 0080-57)
Photographs of events, people, and places at Virginia State
University.
(Acc. 0084-46)
Personal correspondence of the fourth president of Virginia State
University.
(Acc. 0076-56SB)
Printed memorabilia of funeral services for people connected with
Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0076-55c)
Personal, business, and academic papers of the third president of
Virginia State University. Included are two unpublished manuscripts
by Gandy, one an autobiography and the other a history of Virginia
Personal correspondence and memorabilia collected by these
influential black citizens of Petersburg.
(Acc. 0079-11)
The Howard University law degree of the founder of Virginia
State.
(Acc. 0081-17)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
black Petersburg schoolteacher.
(Acc. 0045-5)
A photographic scrapbook of Virginia State showing all the houses and
buildings and a copy of a master's thesis entitled "The Status and
Treatment of Children during Slavery."
(Acc. 0083-31)
Political papers of the youngest person ever to serve on the
Petersburg City Council. They address the issue of the United
Virginia Bank making loans to the government of South Africa.
(Acc. 0085-49)
Manuscripts, reports, and a biography of Mrs. M. E. V. Hunter, the
founder of the School of Home Economics at Virginia State
University.
(Acc. 0062-44)
A Danville teaching certificate.
(Acc. 0093-22)
Correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia, most of which is
directly related to the Colson family. Included is an 1836 letter to
Sarah Colson from Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who later became the first
president of Liberia.
(Acc. 0077-13a)
Personal, business, and academic papers of this Afro-American
historian and professor of history at Virginia State University.
Among the correspondents are John Hope Franklin, W. E. B. DuBois,
Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin Frazier,
Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Taylor, Lorenzo J.
Green, and Carter G. Woodson. In the collection are papers of black
families collected by Jackson for his work, among them the Butler,
Layton, and Wooldridge families, and an 1881-82 handwritten diary
belonging to Samuel T. Miller, a missionary in South Africa,
1881-82.
(Acc. 0052-1)
A letter from two black businessmen of Covington to Booker T.
Washington.
(Acc. 0076-59)
Correspondence of a member of the music department at Virginia State.
Mrs. Jones wrote Play Songs of the Deep South, which was
illustrated by James A. Porter. Included are the papers of Cleota
Collins Lacy.
(Acc. 0079-8)
Personal and business correspondence, manuscripts, and military
papers of the highest-ranking black officer in the 6th Virginia
Volunteer Infantry. The manuscripts include a biographical sketch and
speeches. Included are hundreds of photographs of black citizens of
Petersburg, many dating from the nineteenth century.
(Acc. 0057-3)
Personal, business, and academic correspondence and accounts of this
faculty member and author of Race Relations in Virginia and
Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860.
(Acc. 0063-10)
Academic and business accounts of the second president of Virginia
State. Included are materials on the Virginia Teachers Association
and the Peabody Reading Circle and a number of speeches and
photographs.
(Acc. 0063-9)
Monthly teaching reports for one of the black schools in Sussex
County.
(Acc. 0087-48)
Personal and business correspondence and photographs of this Virginia
State faculty member who was a leading figure in the music
department. Included is correspondence with E. Azalia Hackley.
(Acc. 0059-7)
Personal, business, and agricultural correspondence and accounts of
this white farmer from Matoaca in Chesterfield County. Of special
interest are many diaries detailing daily observations.
(Acc. 0057-6)
Personal, business, and academic papers of this faculty member who
was the founder of the art department at Virginia State. Among the
correspondents are Helen Edmonds.
(Acc. 0082-20)
Copies of the personal, political, and business correspondence of
this black congressman from Chicago, Illinois. The originals are in
the Chicago Historical Society. This group was collected by Professor
Edgar Toppin of Virginia State.
(Acc. 0068-15)
Photographs, artifacts, and a few news clippings of this professor of
music at Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0086-40)
Taped interviews with local black residents of Petersburg and
surrounding communities and with people involved in some manner with
Virginia State University. Some of the subjects covered are
segregation and desegregation in Petersburg and other central
Virginia communities, the Great Depression, racism in the military,
early days at Virginia State, white-black relations, early
transportation, religion, the KKK, World Wars I and II, and education
in general..
Letterbook and biography of the Virginia State faculty member who
started the Extension School.
(Acc. 0044-12)
Business correspondence and memorabilia of this faculty member at
Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0085-35)
Photographs of the parents of Dr. E. H. Payne who were students at
the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
(Acc. 0084-28)
Commencement speech by this 1902 graduate.
(Acc. 00843-29)
Working papers of this school formed in reaction to the closing of
the public schools in the county. All but one of the students were
black. Included are medical records, photographs, yearbook, etc.
(Acc. 0069-38)
Minutes, conference reports, programs, and published documents of
this black church of Mecklenburg County.
(Acc. 0080-36)
Mainly academic and some personal correspondence of this faculty
member of the sociology department of Virginia State University who
CIAA (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) ephemera,
consisting mainly of bulletins. Rodgers was the secretary of the
group for a number of years.
(Acc. 0084-33)
Personal and business correspondence and manuscripts of this faculty
member.
(Acc. 0082-30)
African masks collected by this black anthropologist.
(Acc. 0084-27)
Photographs collected by this head coach and athletic director at
Virginia State University.
(Acc. 0085-50)
A plaque presented to Virginia State University on its
centennial.
(Acc. 0082-43)
Correspondence, photographs, minutes, reports, films, tapes, news
clippings, and artifacts of this association, which governed all
nonacademic activities of black high schools in Virginia. The VIA was
headquartered at Virginia State University from 1954 to 1969.
(Acc. 0069-37)
Minutes and reports of the board, early student records, grades,
photographs, some correspondence of the president's office, fiscal
records, and all catalogues.
Working papers, including correspondence, of this black teachers'
association. Included are radio speeches, reports of conference
meetings, etc.
(Acc. 0069-14)
Materials collected by White while he was writing a history of blacks
in Buckingham County, consisting of copies of wills, letters, and
news clippings. Also included are issues of the official journal of
the Virginia Baptist Convention, The Expected.
(Acc. 0083-41)
Lithographs of Afro-American scenes.
(Acc. 0079-32)
Personal, business, and miscellaneous correspondence and accounts.of
the first black minister of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg.
Williams was also a member of the Petersburg City Council during
Reconstruction.
(Acc. 0045-4)
Personal correspondence of this resident of Ettrick.
(Acc. 0031-24)
Photographs mainly of Virginia State scenes.
(Acc. 0082-21)