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Date of Photograph
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.
Corporate Name Subject
R. R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.); Mary E. Branch Elementary School No. 2 (Farmville, Va.); Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County
Topical Subject
Baseball fields -- Virginia -- Farmville -- History -- Pictorial works; Volunteer workers in recreation -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County; Volunteer workers in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
Geographic Subject
Farmville (Va.)
City/Location
Farmville (Va.)
County
Prince Edward County (Va.)
Original Image Medium
Color negative
Original Image Size
6 x 9 cm.
Genre
photographs
Local Genre
photograph
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
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Collection
Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
File Name
pec104.jpg