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An Open Letter to the People of Lynchburg

Scanned image of a Spring 2004 reproduction of An Open Letter to the People of Lynchburg dated 27 April 1967. The letter protests the policies of the Lynchburg newspapers to exclude news coverage of Dunbar High School and to exclude announcements of…

Tags: 1967, 2004, B C Baldwin Jr., C R Pettyjohn, Charles G Baber, Civil Rights movement, Dunbar High School, James R Gilliam Jr, Jones Memorial Library, Jones Memorial Library Board of Trustees, Letters, newspapers, racial discrimination, Robert C Watts Jr, trustees

Finding Aid to the Amherst County, Virginia Poll Tax Listing

Amherst Co., VA Poll Tax Listing 1904 - MS 1314.pdf

Finding aid to the Amherst County, Virginia Poll Tax Listing for 28 May 1904 held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia. The volume is a list of persons in the county who paid a required poll tax for 1903 to be eligible to vote in the…

Tags: 1903, 1904, Amherst County, disenfranchisement, elections, finding aids, Jim Crow era, MS 1314, MS1314, poll taxes, racial discrimination, racial segregation, taxes, voting, voting restrictions, voting rights

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