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Date of Photograph
1998-08-31
Description
Ceremonies conferring national historic landmark designation on the Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Va., on August 31, 1998: View of the waiting crowd. Ruby Clayton Walker, sitting in the center foreground with straw hat and white and green dress, and Alma Hocker, a member of her Richmond, Va., church, to her right in purple dress, who had attended Prince Edward County schools many years before 1951.
Name of Building
Robert Russa Moton Museum
Personal Name Subject
Walker, Ruby Clayton; Hocker, Alma
Corporate Name Subject
Robert Russa Moton Museum (Farmville, Va.) -- Anniversaries, etc.; R. R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.) -- Student strike, 1951 -- Anniversaries, etc.
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
pec198.jpg