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Scope and Contents Folder includes four items: "A Community's Stories" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in...

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A timeline is being developed on the university website by a special working group established in August 2013 by Washington and Lee President Kenneth P. Ruscio to explore the role of African Americans in the history of the University. The University Library is capturing this timeline using Archive-It.

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This file contains a letter from the Stonewall Jackson Area Council of Boy Scouts of America to Mr. Bozeman denying the formation of an African American Boy Scout Troop in Lexington at that time.

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Includes Borgus and Edmondson families.

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Families included are as follows: Beach, Douty, Drummond, Ford, Goodbar, Hickman, Higgins, Hollaway, Langhorne, Lackey, Little, McFadden, Martin, Mitchell, Moyers, Pullen, Ridgway, Scott, Sensabaugh, Smith, Spencer, Toman, Walker

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Includes photocopy of a list of number of Slaves between 18 and 45 years of age, and their owners, in the district of J. Johnston. January 1863.