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Parksley Train Station, Parksley, Virginia. This is the train station from which Minnie Whitney fled to Philadelphia without her parents knowledge in 1919.

African American family pictured outside their cabin in Virginia, c. 1900

Picture of the Monticello Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia circa 1902.

Three members of the Ku Klux Klan stand next to an automobile during a parade in Virginia, 1922. The parade went through counties in Northern Virginia, not far from the District of Columbia.

In this photo a young African American woman stands in her classroom while her students are working on school work.

Woman and children picking peanuts by hand on a farm in rural Virginia.