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Lisa Edwards-Burrs and Stacy L. Burrs

Lisa Edwards-Burrs and Stacy L. Burrs

Published on February 14, 2015

A passer-by gives a high-five to the likeness of Barbara Rose Johns at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial at Capitol Square in Downtown. Unveiled in 2008, the memorial celebrates Ms. Johns and others whose protests and lawsuits brought an end to the Jim Crow-mandated separation of black and white students in public schools. In 1951 at age 16, Ms. Johns led a student walkout from a decaying high school in Prince Edward County. The legal case that grew from that protest helped generate the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1954 — 61 years ago last Sunday. That remarkable decision outlawed public school segregation and became a major step toward ending legal apartheid in this country. Other figures on the memorial include, front, the late NAACP attorneys Oliver W. Hill and Spottswood W. Robinson III, both of Richmond, who represented Ms. Johns and others in Prince Edward County and whose legal attack on segregation became part of the Brown case. Right, figures celebrate courageous Virginians who marched, protested and helped bring down segregation, serving as a reminder of the role of ordinary citizens in shaping public policy.

A passer-by gives a high-five to the likeness of Barbara Rose Johns at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial at Capitol Square in Downtown. Unveiled in …

Published on May 22, 2015

Historic inauguration at UR - Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher, center, receives the sterling silver Presidential Chain of Office at the University of Richmond from President Emeritus Edward L. Ayers and Dr. Kristine A. Nolin, university marshal and associate professor of chemistry.

Historic inauguration at UR - Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher, center, receives the sterling silver Presidential Chain of Office at the University of Richmond from President …

Published on November 6, 2015

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City Council elects new leaders

Richmond City Councilwoman Cynthia I. Newbille, 7th District, makes a point Monday after being elected president of Richmond’s governing body.

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Protest launched over Confederate bike route

As a small plane flew overheard carrying a banner with a Confederate battle flag and the message “Confederate heros (sic) matter,” cyclists from the Chilean and Mexican national bike teams pedaled up Monument Avenue on Saturday and turned at the statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis to head back Downtown to finish their training course.

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