virginia

Examines the story of George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia, two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their lives--and their family's destiny.

Henry Box Brown describes his life as a slave and his daring escape in 1849 where he spent several hours in a box while it was delivered from Richmond to Philadelphia.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to comply. Instead the county closed its public schools and locked the doors. The community's white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public school for their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, Black parents had to teach their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years the schools remained closed. Eventually they would reopen but Prince Edward Academy would not admit Black students until 1986. The author grew up in the county and in telling the story, her own family's role---no less complex and painful---comes to light.

Examines the life of the Indian princess Pocahontas and her contact with English settlers, especially John Smith.

1958: Richard and Mildred Loving were jailed because their marriage was not legally recognized in Virginia. In 1967, Loving v. Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court.

In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. The court's decision allowed the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be "feebleminded," and championed the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country.

Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.

Whirlwind, a Cherokee woman, believes there is profit to be made in trade with the brutal Spanish, and earns herself the name of War Woman for her efforts to lead her people through the terrifying time of displacement caused by encroaching Europeans.

Presents a brief biography of Pocahontas, one of America's earliest heroes who helped save the lives of the first colonists at Jamestown.