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Ball field adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, Farmville, Va., 1991

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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 1998.37.2924846-78.3961863http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.2924846,%20-78.3961863Call number: LA380.P74
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James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

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Keywords

  1. Baseball Fields
  2. Farmville
  3. Farmville (Va.)
  4. History
  5. Mary E. Branch Elementary School No. 2 (Farmville, Va.)
  6. Pictorial Works
  7. Prince Edward County
  8. R. R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.)
  9. Race Relations
  10. Richmond Committee Of Volunteers To Prince Edward County
  11. Virginia
  12. Volunteer Workers In Education
  13. Volunteer Workers In Recreation

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